Exhibit 99.2
Founders’ Vision – Ouster, Inc.
Title: Founders’ Vision
Speakers:
Mark Frictl (M) – Ouster Co-Founder and CTO
Angus Pacala (A) – Ouster Co-Founder and CEO
M: We’re entering the beginning stages of the next industrial revolution where we can really change how machines are interacting with the world,
A: in just a couple of years, everybody on earth is going to know what lidar technology is because they’re going to have it in their pocket. And it’s actually going to be deployed on every moving object on earth.
A: We founded Ouster based on a vision of making lidar affordable and ubiquitous.
M: when we founded Ouster, lidar was very expensive and kind of a very niche application.
A: But now, with Ousters digital technology, the lidar industry is undergoing a major disruptive transformation.
A: Whenever an industry adopts it, Silicon completely changes our world.)
M: Digital technologies, once they enter an old analog market, very quickly displace them and become completely dominant.
A: But it takes some imagination and it takes some invention to introduce Silicon CMOS technologies into a new industry.
M: The adoption of lidar, at a really mass scale, depends on it being affordable. That’s where Ouster has really focused its efforts.
A: Lidar can only become affordable and ubiquitous if it transitions from fundamentally analog to digital technology.
A: You really can bet on integrated CMOS semiconductors being the cost and performance leader given their track record over the last half century.
M: We see a parallel with lidar to what happened when cameras went through a digital transformation: costs dropped, and performance and flexibility skyrocketed.
A: We’re swapping out chip sets in the sensors instead of redesigning and re-architecting lidar sensors every year.
A: I’m about to show you the inside of our sensor for the very first time. This is the OS0, one of our newest sensors. Inside is the key to everything we do: our digital lidar module. It’s small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, and yet it’s extremely high performance. Instead of hundreds of discrete analog parts, it’s made up of four key components: Custom lenses that define the sensor’s range and field of view, just like a digital camera; A patented micro-optical system that increases performance by orders of magnitude; A high-efficiency laser array, which integrates all of our lasers onto a single semiconductor chip; Last, and most important, is our lidar system-on-chip. This piece of silicon uses SPAD photon detectors capable of counting over one billion photons per second. Our digital lidar architecture powers all of Ouster’s products.