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by AceJohnny2 3343 days ago
I'm kind of stunned at the amount of side-hustling that Levandowski seems to have been doing while at Google. How could the Google not have been aware of it, and how could it let it continue for so long?

If I were more conspiracy-minded, I'd think they let Otto happen in order to feed a poison pill to Uber... In reality, I think they were just complacent, but still :\
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tzs 3343 days ago
> I'm kind of stunned at the amount of side-hustling that Levandowski seems to have been doing while at Google.

Well, Uber is running TV ads urging people to "get your side hustle on" [1], so at least he ended up at the right place.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKqnkoCfQGU

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ansy 3343 days ago
> If I were more conspiracy-minded, I'd think they let Otto happen in order to feed a poison pill to Uber...

That would be a very bad strategy if true so I highly doubt it. IANAL, but I believe under estoppel Google's knowledge of Levandowski's activity and implicit permission to continue would forfeit Google's right to sue later. Likely as soon as they came to know about it they took immediate action to prevent him from taking this defense.

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tdb7893 3343 days ago
I'm not sure if that's plausible or if I've just watched too much Silicon Valley
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