How A Phd Student Made Wayve An £8bn Business And Proved Elon Wrong
At the start of this year, the gates of Buckingham Palace opened to one of Wayve’s driverless cars carrying Alex Kendall and his New Zealand family. In the grandiose Throne Room, beefeaters on guard, Princess Anne presented him with an OBE for services to AI.
From writing the first code, to hiring a team, to finding customers and investors, to commercialising the business, Kendall’s role has changed wildly since his early Cambridge days. “Now the interesting challenge for me is leading a global executive team, managing world-class leaders at a global scale, and I love that,” he said.
He speaks of creating a “generational company”, of seeing Wayve’s technology going beyond driverless cars, into robotics more broadly, in factories and in the home. Almost a decade after Wayve was founded, as he turns 34 this August, Kendall said: “Physical AI is about to have its moment. I feel privileged to be able to play a role in that.”
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