In this OSA podcast episode, OSA Senior Industry Advisor Tom Hausken interviews Luminar Technologies Co-Founder and CTO Jason Eichenholz. They discuss the importance of the company going public and what it means for LIDAR technology and the automotive industry. Eichenholz describes the alternative pathway towards becoming public and opportunities to deliver the software for self-driving cars to market. An OSA Fellow, Eichenholz became involved with The Optical Society as an OSA Student Chapter president while an undergraduate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, USA.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.