AUSTIN
Russell
Founder and CEO of the Luminar Technologies
Organization: Luminar Technologies
Date of Birth: 13 March 1995
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Age: 29 years old
Zodiac sign: Pisces
Profession: Founder
Biography
Austin Russell is an American entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Luminar Technologies. His company Luminar Technologies specializes in lidar and machine perception technologies, mainly used in autonomous cars. Luminar went public in December 2020, vastly increasing his net worth.
Early life and education
A child prodigy, Russell had memorized the periodic table of elements at age two. At age 13, Russell applied for his first patent for a ground water recycling system to reuse water from sprinklers.
He spent the latter part of his teenage years at the University of California at Irvine Beckman laser institute before enrolling in Stanford University. Despite this, he has claimed to have gained most of the knowledge through YouTube and Wikipedia. While attending the university in 2012, he was awarded $100,000 from the Thiel Fellowship, leading him to found Luminar and ultimately drop out of the university.
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