How this 26-year-old CEO went from joking about dropping out of college to running a $4 billion company

How this 26-year-old CEO went from 'joking' about dropping out of college to running a $4 billion company. (via CNBCMakeIt)

Suddenly, Y Combinator felt very possible. The co-founders submitted an application, and were accepted into the incubator's 2016 class of start-ups. The catch: They'd have to drop out of college if they wanted to attend.

Skupien left the start-up in 2017, but Moak remains by Rodrigues' side as Embark's chief technology officer. And even though Embark's stock has dipped by roughly 5% since the company went public, likely a standard sign of post-merger volatility, Rodrigues today is still one of the youngest people to ever run a multibillion-dollar company.took self-driving vehicle technology company Luminar public with a multibillion-dollar valuation.

Multiple other autonomous trucking companies also went public this year, including competitors TuSimple and Aurora Innovation in April and November, respectively.

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