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Otto had existed for long enough at that point that you could, in theory, believe that he'd re-created those over the lifetime of Otto. But even then I'd agree
by mst 9y ago
Otto had existed for long enough at that point that you could, in theory, believe that he'd re-created those over the lifetime of Otto.
But even then I'd agree that they're probably guilty of "intentionally not thinking too hard about it", at the very least.
- tedivm 9y agoAccording to various documents that Google has submitted to the courts, Uber was talking with Levandowski before he had even left Google. https://www.axios.com/analysis-uber-gets-bruised-though-not-necessarily-beaten-in-court-2391739849.html https://www.axios.com/analysis-uber-gets-bruised-though-not-...
- openmosix 9y agoOtto went from zero to hero in ~7 months. Assuming that talks of a $800M company acquisition take some time and you don't build a company overnight (hiring and ramping up something like 90 employees), how long was really spent in R&D mode? 3 months? 4? Compared to years of R&D from other companies in the same space seems like a big stretch.
- jacquesm 9y agoFrankly I don't buy it, not even a little bit. I do DD for a living with some regularity and if someone popped up with that much IP in such a short time I would spend a lot of time on the origin story of that IP and I really would like to have a chat with the magical 1000x developers that they employed. It is beyond suspicious, but then again, maybe pigs really can fly.