Mobileye founder Amnon Shashua intends to step down as president and chief executive once the company appoints his successor. The change ends a 27-year run in the top job, while keeping Mobileye’s defining technologist close to the company: Shashua plans to remain a director and the board has offered him the chair.The timing makes this more than a founder-succession item. Mobileye still earns nearly all its revenue from driver-assistance products sold to carmakers and their suppliers. It is also preparing to operate its own US robotaxi service in 2027 and has completed a $900 million acquisition of Mentee Robotics, a humanoid company co-founded by Shashua. The incoming chief executive must turn those large research programmes into dependable products and revenue, while preserving the automotive relationships that built Mobileye.About The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.
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