Maybe that works for Levandowski-level celebrity engineers. There are, maybe, a few thousand pro football players in the world, and a few hundred on the top te

Maybe that works for Levandowski-level celebrity engineers. There are, maybe, a few thousand pro football players in the world, and a few hundred on the top teams. (For comparison, there are 450 players in the NBA.) The tech behemoths each have tens of thousands of employees, so most engineers are a commodity.