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The world s youngest self-made billionaire hopes to power every future self-driving car with a technology that Elon Musk says is doomed

The world s youngest self-made billionaire hopes to power every future self-driving car with a technology that Elon Musk says is doomed hhoffower@businessinsider.com (Hillary Hoffower) © Provided by Business Insider Austin Russell, the founder and CEO of the self-driving-car tech startup Luminar, is the youngest billionaire. Luminar Luminar CEO Austin Russell is the youngest self-made billionaire after taking his company public via a special-purpose acquisition company merger last month. It s a Silicon Valley tale: Russell has built inventions since his childhood and dropped out of Stanford when he got the Thiel Fellowship to work on Luminar. He disrupted innovation in an emerging industry, developing nontraditional lidar sensors that help self-driving cars see the road.

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