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Re:The Uber Bombshell About to Drop by Twirrim on Monday March 13, 2017 @06:48PM (#13863257)
> Summer 2015 - Anthony Levandowski told Pierre-Yves Droz, a colleague at Waymo, that he had talked with an Uber executive about forming a self-driving car startup and that Uber would be interested in buying that startup.

This, particularly, seems absolutely moronic. If you're going to do something shady, don't tell anyone about it.

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Re:The Uber Bombshell About to Drop by londons_explore on Monday March 13, 2017 @08:17PM (#13863821)
You tell the people you hope to poach, especially if you intend to give them equity rather than salary because you're cash-poor because you can't get VC funding.
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