Welcome to the Tech Mem right home for Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Waymo just announced a huge investment round, 2.25 billion dollars coming from Silver Lake,

Andresen Horwitz, Parent Company Alphabet, and others including Auto Nation and the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Abu Dhabi.

This is Weymo's first ever outside rays.

If you listen to this show regularly though, maybe you shouldn't be surprised that it's happening, quoting Venture Beat.

The news comes after a report by the information revealed that Wamo nearly doubled its head

count to 1500 employees known as Wamonauts from 800 about a year ago.

The company's annual cost is estimated to be around $1 billion

while its robot-taxi business, Weymo 1,

reportedly yields just hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in revenue.

Weimo hasn't shared the number of customers who have ridden in its fleet of over 600 vehicles to date,

but it said last December that over 1,500 people are using its ride-hailing service monthly

and that it has served over a hundred thousand total rides since launching its

rider program in 2017. Waimo is the proven leader in self-driving technology, is the only autonomous vehicle company with a public ride hailing service and is successfully scaling its fully driverless experience, said Silver Lake Co CEO E-Durbin in a statement, quote,

we're deeply aligned with Waymo's commitment to making our roads safer

and look forward to working together to help advance and scale

the Waymo driver in the US and beyond."

So I said, this probably isn't surprising given all of that news of the recent hires and the

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