Waymo is an autonomous ride-hailing and self-driving vehicle technology company that originated as Google's self-driving car project before becoming a standalone Alphabet company under the Waymo name in December 2016. Waymo's Twitter Score is 69 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #12,076 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Waymo was co-founded by Sebastian Thrun and Anthony Levandowski and describes itself as the world's first fully autonomous ride-hailing service, having served more than 20 million trips. In October 2024, Waymo raised a $5.6 billion funding round led by Alphabet, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity, and Tiger Global.
Waymo has also been subject to regulatory and legal scrutiny. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation into Waymo's autonomous vehicles after receiving 22 reports of crashes or possible traffic-law violations, though no injuries had been reported at that time, per the AP. Separately, Waymo settled a trade-secret lawsuit against Uber in 2018, with Uber agreeing not to use Waymo's hardware or software intellectual property and paying equity valued at approximately $245 million, while Uber maintained it had not received trade secrets.
Waymo has published 5,646 posts on the platform and has 139,385 followers as of August 2026. Waymo has been mentioned by 612 accounts a total of 1,540 times.
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The accounts that follow Waymo include 264 founders, 81 angel investors, 73 influencers and 9 VCs, among them Toly, Andrej Karpathy, Jason Choi, Beeple, John Wang and Mario Nawfal.