Item 8.01 Other Events.

As previously announced on December 14, 2021, Gores Holdings VIII, Inc. (the "Company") entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the "Merger Agreement"), by and among the Company, Frontier Merger Sub, Inc. ("First Merger Sub"), Frontier Merger Sub II, LLC ("Second Merger Sub"), and Footprint International Holdco, Inc. ("Footprint"), which provides for, among other things: (a) the merger of First Merger Sub with and into Footprint, with Footprint continuing as the surviving corporation (the "First Merger"); and (b) immediately following the First Merger and as part of the same overall transaction as the First Merger, the merger of Footprint with and into Second Merger Sub, with Second Merger Sub continuing as the surviving entity.

Footprint announced that, effective as of January 10, 2022, Joshua M. Walden resigned from his position as Chief Operations Officer of Footprint for personal reasons.

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