WAYMO: Isn’t it true that the interviewer from Bloomberg asked you when you reconnected with Levandowski? KALANICK: I don’t remember. WAYMO: Turn in your binder to TX 107.
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UBER: How do you feel about him now? TK: Look. this has been a difficult process. He had some… This makes it not as great as what we thought at the beginning.
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First emotion Kalanick shows is when lawyer asks him about the founding of Uber and what being CEO was like.
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His voice quavers a little, "Imagine six people behind a table and that’s your whole team. Day in and Day out you dream what Uber could be."
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TK: I's not just team of six, you have thousand people in 30(?) major cities and your job goes from being a team of six to being in the trenches and empowering thousands of teams of six.
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Around 2013 Larry Page and Kalanick had a meeting where Page came and picked him up in a self-driving car, they began to think of a partnership. Google invested in Uber. Kalanick did not think of Google as a competitor.
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UBER: What was the relationship between the two companies at the time? KALANICK: It was kind of like little brother with the big brother. It may be kind of hard to grok right now but at the time Uber was a couple hundred employees, kind of small.
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Email from TK, March 2015 "Without any dialogue we get pushed into the assumption that Google is competing in the short term ad has probably been planning to do so for quite a bit longer than has been let on. I hope I’m wrong here, just need to do a meeting with Larry ASAP..."
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Email from David Drummond (GC of Uber) in January 2015 “Just got the transcript from the Q&A at the Detroit Auto Show. Urmson is openly discussing rolling out an Autonomous Vehicle ridesharing service. I'm thinking it’s time to have a chat with Larry directly.”
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Kalanick says Larry Page was "fairly upset with us" for acquiring the CMU team
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UBER: During [discussions with AL], did you ask Levandowski to bring Google information to Uber? TK: I did not. Ever. UBER: At any point in those discussions did Mr. Levandowski tell you he was going to bring Google information to Uber? TK: He did not.
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UBER: Apart from the allegations that Google made in their complaint have you ever heard from any person the allegation that Levandowski downloaded files to bring to Otto and then to Uber? TK: Never.
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TK acknowledges that "Newco" is the codename for Otto.
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"Do you recall Mr. Verhoeven in his questioning asking whether...." it was so convoluted that TK had to ask her to repeat and clarify.https://twitter.com/Ross_Todd/status/961287377149808641 …
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TK: When you acquire something you do acquire the developed intellectual property of the company you acquire. UBER: Why?
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TK: That’s part of the acquisition. So at the time of the acquisition they had autonomous trucks that were going up and down 280. I got to take a couple rides in that. Yeah. It was fun.
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Uber asks about John Bares. KALANICK: He's a pretty earnest guy. Very straightforward. Little bit of an aww shucks type feel to him. He’s a good guy. Always looking to learn. I really loved working with him.
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UBER: He apparently took notes in meetings. Pages and pages of notes in meetings. If someone went to a meeting with John Bares and said “Let’s steal Google’s IP” do you think John Bares would just sit there? Objection, argumentative, sustained
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UBER: Yesterday you helped us understand jam sesh. Can you help us understand cheat codes? Oh god
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TK: Cheat codes are like elegant solutions to problems that haven’t already been thought of. Gives two examples -- how Tesla cars have sensors and how Uber calculates approx time before car arrives
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TK: People buy Tesla cars. They cost 40 grand or something more. Tesla cars have a lot of sensors in their cars… They’ve got people paying Tesla to help their self-driving effort do better. We would consider that a cheat code for example.
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sounding like a dbag by saying "jam sesh" was 3D chesshttps://twitter.com/RMac18/status/961290191590735872 …
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We're back in court and Alsup is telling lawyers that the court reporter won't transcribe audio from video (so is uh the Michael Douglas speech in the record)
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UBER: You said you’d agreed to indemnity. You also said that you did that in part because it was thought that Google might bring a lawsuit. Why did Uber think that Google might bring a lawsuit?
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TK: It started back at the CMU acquisition. Larry was just very angry, very upset that we were doing their thing.
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TK: When we acquired the CMU team... we acquired them because we couldn’t tell [Google] were still up for partnering and when we acquired [CMU] [Page] made it clear that he was very upset with us and very unhappy that we were doing autonomy
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TK now explaining that he can't read every contract that exists because he gets hundreds a month and each is like "when you get a mortgage or buy a house"
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Also curious: is anyone else under the impression that "cheat codes" is used as lingo in the way that Kalanick described?
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