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I wonder if this includes the 'Fuck you money' engineers on project Chauffeur received for passing certain milestones. Earlier in the depositions it was disclo

• nostrademons 9y ago
  Levandowski's $120M was an earn-out from the acquisition of his startup: https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/the-unknown-startup-that-built-googles-first-selfdriving-car https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/t... (Note the date: this is well before Otto and the Uber/Waymo flap.) It probably is counted in the $1.1B spent on self-driving tech though.
  • Fricken 9y ago
    It was disclosed in the depositions that the 510 systems acquisition was worth about $20 million: http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/05/23/how-star-engineer-sparked-war-between-google-2.html http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/05/23/how-star-engi... The bonuses were paid out at the end of 2015. It was shortly after that that Levandowski revealed Otto to the world. Plus Chris Urmson started Aurora, and Brian Salesky went on to become CEO of Argo, which is Ford's autonomous Driving subsidiary. They all got some kind of huge bonus. It supposedly amounted to a 14% rise in the aggregated quarterly expenses of Alphabets 'other bets', which lumps together a bunch of Alphabet's moonshot subsidiaries.