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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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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3/1 text, TK to AL Transportation is social graph of physical world ALSUP: Wait, who's replying to that? The reply says "Agree" but it's from TK ALSUP: Is that you? You're agreeing with yourself? TK: I don’t know. It’s been a long time since these texts.
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TK: I wanted to call him and say we’re not building flying cars. If flying cars are made and Google makes them I will make sure that our fifty million customers or so will be able to push a button and get a flying car.
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TK: I tried to approach him for a partnership. He was just upset with us and he said you’re taking our people, you’re taking our IP. It was confusing because I kept telling him, we’re recruiting a lot of your people, people can work where they want to work, but people are not IP.
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This was an October 2016 conversation with Larry Page, and Page did not mention anything about Levandowski or trade secrets.
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Kalanick has been excused but I am about to type up the FUNNIEST exchange right now
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WAYMO: I’ve been reading in the press you’ve been playing a lot of video games. TK: When I’m between gigs I play iphone games. Sometimes. WAYMO: You like playing video games? TK: Like iPhone games is my thing. WAYMO: In the context of video games, you know what a cheat code is?
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TK: Yes, but those codes in those games are put there on purpose by the publisher of the games, and they want the players to have them. It’s part of the fun of the game. That’s just the game.
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WAYMO: But you acknowledge a cheat code allows you to skip ahead, allows you to skip a level and not do the work? TK: No — WAYMO: That’s it your honor.
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AND WITH THAT, TK WAS DISMISSED AND RELEASED FROM ANY SUBPOENA
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Nina Qi (formerly of Uber, manager of corporate development) is now on the stand
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Slide from a report/presentation says: NewCo can shorten AV timeline by 1-2 Years while de-risking our current laser approach
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Playing back the depo tape, Qi looks incredibly nervous in the depo. Much better prepped for trial.
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We're basically going over biz dev numbers, how much value Uber thought they were getting out of the Otto deal.
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Qi and Levandowski communicated by text and those texts have since been deleted and can't be accessed by her anymore
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Uber cross just asking if she had anything to do with laser, LIDAR, etc. Qi says her job was just "figuring out how much Uber would be willing to pay for the deal."
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Now for some reason we're talking about Nina Qi's backstory
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She grew up in a small town and then went to Stanford and majored in economics and this sounds like a bad job interview
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When she worked on this report she had "no experience" with self-driving cars, that wasn't the point of her report
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Qi now unpacking that analysis and that a lot of assumptions went into it because the tech was so new and they didn't know the scope of launch etc. "At the end of the day, it really was just an educated guess"
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This is interesting: Cameron Poetzscher, her boss, would have made a better witness but the parties made an agreement to trade Poetzscher for two exhibits — Poetzscher no longer being called, and two exhibits are now admissible by stipulation
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She did her analysis in Jan 2016. UBER: How many self-driving trips did Uber take in 2016? QI: Based on my knowledge, none. UBER: What did your analysis project for 2017? QI: 295,000 UBER: How many did they take in 2017? QI: Based on my knowledge, none.
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QI: We were trying to project what the future looked like without any historical data or financials. Our estimates just didn’t pan out.
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Qi says she was never valuating Google trade secrets, she was never aware of any trade secrets, she doesn't know what the trade secrets are.
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In redirect, Waymo asks if she was relying on other people for info to form her analysis, like Brian McClendon (who'll probably be called to the stand at some point).
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Of deleting the Levandowski texts, she said M&A deals often involve a lot of secrecy because a deal can get blown up by a leak, so when he asked her to delete texts she thought nothing was out of the ordinary.
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