There have been dozens of Tesla Cybertrucks this week in Bentonville, Ark., shuttling startup founders and executives between their private planes and hotels and the row of airplane hangars outside a small, municipal airport where the UP.Summit took place this week.
It’s not every day that so many of the companies I cover actually come to me and the small city I’ve decided to call home. But once a year—when the transportation-focused VC firm UP.Partners hosts this event (this year with Walmart heirs Tom and Steuart Walton as co-hosts)—they do just that.
