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How so? If he's found guilty the 680 million, he and his investors, received from Uber is obviously going to be rescinded. The 120 million he received from Goog
by bitmapbrother 10y ago
How so? If he's found guilty the 680 million, he and his investors, received from Uber is obviously going to be rescinded. The 120 million he received from Google may also be challenged considering his deception and the side businesses he was running.
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- firstpost1234 10y agothey still have to be able to collect. and knowing how profligate Uber is with spending, i wouldn't be surprised if a large part of the Otto acquisition was immediate earnout for Levandowski. frankly, if he comes out with $10MM after it's all said and done, he's still ahead. it's totally possible for this to happen.
- bitmapbrother 10y agoI'm sure he'll land on his feet. His reputation and trustworthiness, however, will forever be tarnished. And if he's convicted his career is pretty much over.
- ryandrake 10y agoDo you need a career if you have that much money?
- hkmurakami 10y agoFor the highly aspirational type, $10M is really not a lot of money in SV these days (it is however still a great deal of money for a reasonable sort of person).
- douche 10y agoAnyone who thinks 10 mill is nkt a lot of money needs to get their head out of their ass and live a day in the lives of those who would greet 10k as an unbelievable benefice. Not that they would understand those $5 words
- poikniok 10y agoWhat kind of word is "nkt"?
- hkmurakami 10y agomust be a typo of "not", most likely via a phone.
- douche 10y agoYep, on my phone k is just below o on the godawful on-screen keyboard
- asdfologist 10y agoHe could always run for president of the United States.
- tyingq 10y agoI don't think it's obvious either of those will happen, even if he admits to stealing all those documents. There are both civil and criminal possibilities here, and various avenues where it might happen. What actually happens though? I don't think the HN crowd (myself included) knows. I've tried to be an amateur lawyer before and guess outcomes. It works just about as well as amateur programming .
- bitmapbrother 10y agoTrue, but I don't think you need to be an amateur lawyer to deduce that if the company, you just sold, was based on stolen technology then you're screwed legally and financially. And from what we know right now it seems that it was.
- tyingq 10y agoI assume opposing counsel has an opinion on how much of the value was based on stolen documents, and how much was not. I totally get what you're saying. But I mostly don't see verdicts, settlement amounts, forfeitures, and the like following common sense.
- ehsankia 10y agoWell one things for certain, I sure as hell wouldn't want to be on the opposite side from Google's lawyers, especially when it's something as big as self driving cars, a project they been investing on for almost a decade.
- tyingq 10y agoI agree, it looks grim. Actually losing half a billion+, though, depends on some hairball of laws, judges, juristictions, and so forth...around actual damages, punitive measures, forfeiture in a separate criminal case, etc. Handslaps aren't uncommon, and neither are the opposite...awards that seem too large. There's also the degree to which Uber is culpable (provably, legally) vs Levandowski personally. Would be interested in hearing a prediction from an IP lawyer.