A file photo of Ford president and CEO Jim Hackett (right) and Volkswagen AG CEO Dr Herbert Diess (left) with Salesky (middle) at a news conference. At the 2007 self-driving competition staged by DARPA in Victorville, California, Salesky's CMU team and one from rival Stanford University included the future founders of at least four self-driving startups. — Reuters
Bryan Salesky had little way of knowing in 2007 that his teammates and rivals in a US Defense Department-sponsored competition were laying the foundations for future self-driving businesses now valued at billions of dollars.
Twelve years later, even some of his former Carnegie Mellon University teammates have become business competitors of Salesky, who with CMU alumnus and faculty adviser Peter Rander founded Argo AI and went on to attract substantial investments from Ford Motor Co and Volkswagen AG.
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