A thing I hadn't really thought of was that perhaps the main goal from Uber wasn't to explicitly gain access to Waymo secrets (as in documents etc) but simply h

A thing I hadn't really thought of was that perhaps the main goal from Uber wasn't to explicitly gain access to Waymo secrets (as in documents etc) but simply how to recruit the whole self-driving cars team from Waymo. Uber trying to one-by-one recruit them from Waymo would probably have been much more difficult compared with what happened - Levandowski creating a start-up, whose whole aim was to get acquired by Uber. > At one point, Levandowski said that he asked Brian McClendon, who left Google to join Uber, how much Uber would be willing to pay for the Chauffeur team, claiming he wanted to have a market value for the team Ie it's more "I'll make it so you can buy the Chaffeur team" rather than "I'll let you buy these design docs that are Waymo confidential".