California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Elon Musk at Tesla’s new global engineering and AI headquarters in Palo Alto on Feb. 22, 2023. Courtesy Office of Gov. Gavin Newsom. Tesla Motors has announced ...

However, the company is caught "in a bind" when it comes to launching its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system in China, which CEO Elon Musk previously said he expected to get approved by the end of 2024.

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has been immersed in Silicon Valley since his August 1967 birth in Palo Alto, California, in the shadow of Stanford University, where he and fellow technology luminary Peter Thiel became friends as college students during the 1980s.