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Dave Ferguson

CEO & Co-Founder, Nuro

Search every verified Dave Ferguson interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Dave Ferguson, co-founder and CEO of Nuro, discussed in a November 2022 interview on "How I Built This Lab" his vision for autonomous vehicles designed exclusively for goods delivery, not passengers. He stated that nearly half of car trips Americans take involve picking up items, and Nuro builds vehicles meant to automate those errands. Ferguson described Nuro's first prototype, the R1, as a small vehicle without a steering wheel, and explained that the company focuses on safety features such as external airbags and crumple zones, which he said are intended to keep people outside the vehicle safer than those inside. He noted that the vehicles are monitored by remote operators called guardians. In June 2026, Ferguson spoke at the Great Lakes Annual Conference as a pastor, author, and CEO/president/co-founder of Exponential. He discussed challenges facing church leaders, citing statistics that 65% feel lonely or isolated, nearly half meet the clinical definition of obesity, and 53% have considered leaving pastoral ministry. Ferguson described a simple tool for healthy leadership involving relational, physical, mental, and spiritual "gauges." He emphasized that Jesus' instruction was to "go make disciples who make disciples," and argued that planting new churches is the best evangelistic tool, as studies show new churches see three to four times as many conversions. Ferguson also remarked that churches represent "the greatest source of social capital that our country has."

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