Aqui-hire. Google already established Levandowski as a hundred-millon dollar man, didn't they? It's complete BS but that's the reason for the valuation, he ca

Aqui-hire. Google already established Levandowski as a hundred-millon dollar man, didn't they? It's complete BS but that's the reason for the valuation, he can do it, Google already paid him that much and he 'wanted to do his own thing,' it's going to cost you to hire that guy. Can you even spin up and staff a company in that time frame and integrate a lot of the technical parts in to something very meaningful in 9 months? With custom hardware and stuff that seems insanely tight (but there is a lot of money at play, you push hard) Even if there are off the shelf components that do most of the work and they're pre-integrated that seems insanely aggressive. I can only assume Otto didn't have any IP of real value other than a staff.