Even now, as the company’s assembly lines have started churning out its electric vehicles, success still isn’t assured.
The 39-year-old is running the car company he founded, building electric vehicles he helped engineer and design.
Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesEver since he was a child growing up in Melbourne, Florida, Scaringe wanted to start his own car company.
At the time, the idea of starting a car company seemed very farfetched.
Robert Joseph "RJ" Scaringe, Rivian's founder and CEO, said he had wanted to start a car company since he was a child.