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I would have a lot more sympathy for Levandowski if he had taken trade secrets and created his own company. But he didn't take the engineer/entrepreneur route.
by tryitnow 7y ago
I would have a lot more sympathy for Levandowski if he had taken trade secrets and created his own company.
But he didn't take the engineer/entrepreneur route. He took the corporate espionage route and just stole stuff from one company so that another company would profit, in the process further enriching himself.
At one point he was a good engineer. Then he became just another greedy executive.
- denzil_correa 7y ago> But he didn't take the engineer/entrepreneur route. He took the corporate espionage route and just stole stuff from one company so that another company would profit, in the process further enriching himself. Levandowski actually had his own startup Otto which was acquired by Uber.
- jonathankoren 7y agoIt was acquired in eight months, and founded specifically after Levandowski and Kalanick had a meeting. Otto looks like a prearranged sham legal entity to justify a huge payout, than a bonafide startup.
- sdan 7y ago"If you buy us, you'll also buy some Waymo code"
- jonathankoren 7y agoI figure it was just two bros figuring out how to funnel a tens of millions dollars into Levandoski’s pocket.
- sdan 7y agoIf I'm hearing this right, this is pretty much money laundering