Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technologies lead amid legal fight

Re:Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technologies l... by andreyf on Friday April 28, 2017 @11:35AM (#14220257)

"Do we want to build this or buy this" is a pretty typical decision at all large companies, no? Wouldn't it be supremely strange if Google acquired something without at least considering building it internally?

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Re:Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technologies l... by rsp1984 on Friday April 28, 2017 @01:58PM (#14221612)

There's a difference between internally weighing build-vs-buy and openly threatening a pair of hackers in a negotiation with a blatant rip-off.

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Re:Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technologies l... by andreyf on Friday April 28, 2017 @03:59PM (#14222604)

Fair point: I taught my daughter never to threaten at about 6 years old.

The way I see it, even at Google, small M&A deals are just staffed by a bunch of aggro nerds who have a lot more "egoistic hot shot" than "civilized decorum" about them. It seems possible they were bluffing — getting organizational buy-in and staffing a small project at Google has relatively enormous overhead. So for tiny projects (<$1M), buying is nearly always cheaper.

Best response, I imagine, would be "ok, why don't you guys figure out how much that'll cost you and we'll circle back to talk numbers again. looking forward to it!"

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Re:Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technologies l... by eternalban on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:26PM (#14224477)

> The way I see it ... deals are just staffed by a bunch of aggro nerds ...

On what facts do you base this perception? If it is Uber we say "culture is set from top". This doesn't apply to Google?

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