Rank #3104
JoeBen Bevirt
Net worth $1.2B
Electric aviation · United States
- Born
- Sep 04, 1973
- Age
- 52
- Source
- Electric aviation
- Residence
- Santa Cruz, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
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Biography
- JoeBen Bevirt is the founder and CEO of Joby Aviation, which is developing aircraft capable of taking off and landing vertically.
- Raised on an off-the-grid commune in California, as a kid Bevirt dreamed of planes that could maneuver like helicopters, and went on to study engineering at the University of California at Davis and Stanford.
- He launched Joby in 2009 after first founding Velocity11, which built liquid-handling robots used for testing potential drugs, and the company behind GorillaPod, a flexible camera tripod.
- He raised funds from the likes of carmaker Toyota, Laurene Powell Jobs' Emerson Collective and Jeff Skoll's Capricorn Investment Group, and took Joby public via SPAC merger in 2021.
- Bevirt's father was a member of author Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters group. He's named JoeBen after a character in Kesey's novel "Sometimes a Great Notion."
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