General Motors has turned to Sterling Anderson, a veteran of the autonomous vehicle industry, to oversee its entire product line of gas-powered and

General Motors (GM) on Monday announced the appointment of Aurora Innovation (AUR) co-founder Sterling Anderson as executive vice president and chief product officer. The automaker said Anderson will report to GM President Mark Reuss and oversee the end-to-end product lifecycle for gas—and electric-powered vehicles,

GM has appointed Aurora co-founder and product boss Sterling Anderson as the automaker’s executive vice president of global product and chief product officer.

General Motors Co. on Monday appointed a former Tesla Inc. leader and the co-founder of a self-driving vehicle company to oversee global products at the Detroit automaker, which has struggled to match electric and self-driving technology offered by Elon Musk's Tesla.

During its earnings call it was announced that the company expects to raise between $650 to $850 million before achieving cash flow positivity and that Co-founder and CPO Sterling Anderson would be leaving the company.

Remember last week when Aurora met a major milestone — just squeaking by under its own deadline — and launched a driverless self-driving truck service? Welp, this week Aurora made headlines again, but for a surprising change in leadership.