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Mar 2021
48m 10s

Aicha Evans (Zoox) - Driving Innovation

Stanford Ecorner
About this episode
In January 2019, Aicha Evans was named CEO of autonomous vehicle startup Zoox, which was acquired by Amazon in 2020. Prior to joining Zoox, Evans served as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Intel, where she drove Intel’s transformation from a PC-centric company to a data-centric company. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer a ... Show More
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