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Re:Google claims Levandowski launched competing projects lon... by austenallred on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @09:58AM (#14032619)
These things are related. You don't get a price war over someone that results in paying them $100m if you don't believe that person will create over $100m in value.

And since this person went off, started their own company, and sold it a couple years later for $1 Billion, it seems whoever was offering that paycheck was right to do so.

Re:Google claims Levandowski launched competing projects lon... by lovich on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @10:35AM (#14033033)
That's the thought process behind investing, but just because the investment risk was taken doesn't mean they actually created that value. Also with strategic investments sometimes it isn't that your investment generates that much revenue for you, but ithe does deny your competition access to that resource