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AUSTIN Russell

AUSTIN
Russell

Founder and CEO of the Luminar Technologies

Luminar Technologies
  • Date of Birth: 13 March 1995
  • Age: 31 years old
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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.

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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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Date of Birth 13 March 1995
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Luminar Technologies

Luminar Technologies  is an American technology company that develops vision-based lidar and machine perception technologies, primarily for self-driving cars. The company's headquarters and main resea...

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