Re:Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google
by bogomipz on Thursday March 05, 2020 @04:47AM
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How does an employee make tens of millions? Was he a very early employee or did Google acquire a company he founded?
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Re:Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google
by mkl on Thursday March 05, 2020 @06:19AM
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$120 million in "Incentive pay": https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/04/04/anthony-...
Re:Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google
by smackmybishop on Thursday March 05, 2020 @06:13AM
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Neither, and it was hundreds of millions.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/03/waymos-uber-lawsuit-reveals-...
Re:Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google
by bogomipz on Thursday March 05, 2020 @05:30PM
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This is what I find so baffling - he didn't need the money and it seems like the whole Otto pursuit had a significant enough downside risk for someone who was already quite wealthy that I'm surprised he was willing to take it.