Thursday, March 17, 2022
A former Waterloo Engineering student is giving up his 2022 salary and bonus at the multi-billion-dollar autonomous trucking company he co-founded to support youth robotics and STEM education.
Alex Rodrigues, who left the mechatronics engineering program at Waterloo to pursue his passion for self-driving vehicles in Silicon Valley, is CEO of Embark Trucks, which went public last year with an approximate valuation of US $5 billion.
At the time, shares held by Rodrigues and Brandon Moak, his former classmate and fellow founder at Embark, made them both worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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