Hi everybody. Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter at the

automotive news. And I'm Alexis St. John, covering tech and suppliers. Joining us on the

podcast today is Edwin Olson, CEO of May Mobility.

A lot of big changes at the company

over the last year, maybe year plus,

and Ed's gonna walk us through a lot of interesting opportunities, deployments new senior leadership team I won't spoil the rest but first

Alexa obviously some very big news this week John Kraft chick stepped down as CEO at Weymo, a story I know you covered.

Tell me a little bit about what you learned and why John is walking away. That's right.

That was some pretty big news in the past week here on the mobility front.

Kind of shocking to many in the industry it seemed, but Weimo will now be led by the company's C.O. and C. T.O.

More on that. But, you know, we didn't really get all that many details about why Kraftck was stepping down. We heard that, you know, he's

felt that being at the helm of the company has really been the capstone of his career and you know we know him of course from

various other roles in the industry true car being one of them Hyundai Motor

America as well as in various roles at Ford as well.

And so again, we didn't get too many details about what his next venture is.

We do know that he has moved down to Texas already and he's really looking forward to, you know, handing over the helm.

He will be staying on with the company as an advisor at the very least. But you know I'm

curious about what his next move might be and you know wondering your

thoughts what do you think he might be up to? I don't know that you know I've read

some conspiracy theories about you can imagine some other big companies that are

also locating in Austin, Texas these days.

But I really think, you know, that John is stepping away

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