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Luminar, a lidar tech startup backed by Peter Thiel, Volvo, and GoPro's founder Nick Woodman, plans to go public via a $3.4B merger with a SPAC

Bloomberg : Tweets: @fpontaza , @thestalwart , and @dstrachman Tweets: Fernando Pontaza / @fpontaza : 5 years ago two Guatemalans walked into a room in SF and met a teacher and a philosopher that had decided to start a VC fund to invest in people outside the University system. Today, through @1517fund and directly, we share in the success of @luminartech https://www.bloomberg.com/... Joe Weisenthal / @thestalwart : More autonomous vehicle tech coming to the stock market https://www.bloomberg.com/... Danielle Strachman / @dstrachman : We have worked with Austin since he was a 17 year old applying to the Thiel Fellowship and we started 1517 to support him and other dropout founders. We didn't know if his ideas were crazy or crazy awesome. Now the world knows. https://www.bloomberg.com/...

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  • @fpontaza Fernando Pontaza on x
    5 years ago two Guatemalans walked into a room in SF and met a teacher and a philosopher that had decided to start a VC fund to invest in people outside the University system. Today, through @1517fund and directly, we share in the success of @luminartech https://www.bloomberg.com…
  • @thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x
    More autonomous vehicle tech coming to the stock market https://www.bloomberg.com/...
  • @dstrachman Danielle Strachman on x
    We have worked with Austin since he was a 17 year old applying to the Thiel Fellowship and we started 1517 to support him and other dropout founders. We didn't know if his ideas were crazy or crazy awesome. Now the world knows. https://www.bloomberg.com/...