Ron has no experience with LIDAR or self-driving, he "hasn't touched anything engineering related in 10-15 years"
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“Uber and others are ramping up quickly and are only 2 years behind at this point” “The team is not moving fast enough due to a combination of risk aversion and lack of urgency, we need to move faster” “We have team Lisa - now we need team Mac”
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Sent to Lior Ron 1/16 "Hey can you write me the email I should send to Bryan of how he should announce that he is replacing me as laser team lead? He asked me to do that and I think it's great opportunity to setup evidence that I was pushed out"
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WAYMO: So. He wanted to *set* *up* *evidence* that he was pushed out.
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Day after this text Lior left, no advance notice, and formed Ottomotto 2 days later, January 15.
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Showing a text from AL asking Ron to delete all iMessage
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look guys. I mean. First of all. Don't steal corporate secrets. But secondly. Like. They can recover your fucking iMessages yes
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Highly Sought-After Boy Genius Techie Visionaries Google How To Wipe Their Laptop
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i mean yes you're in a bit of a bind -- if it ever goes to litigation and all they have is evidence that you used Wickr or Signal disappearing messages and there's no record, they can just wave their arms and say it's suspicious
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and leaving a record means that things can get taken out of context. But deleting messages and getting them forensically recovered? lmao worst of all possible fucking worlds
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Excerpts from email that Lior Ron sent himself: 1/2/2016 > Help Uber win the self-driving race > Accelerate 300-500 m year, cut at least a year, probably more > Trucking - 700B/year potential
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This is before he quit Google, and many months before Otto acquisition, Ron had already had written down in notes "Help Uber win the self driving race"
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Now pulling up notes that Ron wrote, TK: This is all about winning. To win, we have to cross the finish line first, losing it not an option.
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Oh, the second line is Lior Ron's own words, not TK. "To win, we have to cross the finish line first, losing it not an option."
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Ron and Levandowski are still shareholders together in a holding company.
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UBER: Did you ever in your discussions with Levandowski, did the two of you ever discuss files he may have downloaded while he was at Google? RON: No he did not. UBER: Did you ever discuss self-driving car technology? RON: Only at a high level but not specifics.
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Lior Ron says that Ottomotto was clear about not bringing in IP when they brought on new employees.
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Now asking about Ron's accent, as a way to talk about his back story
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Was born in Israel, served as a service captain in the Israeli military, came to Stanford, studied business, ended up at Google in 2007.
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They've gotten at this before but part of Uber's story is that Waymo is slow, hesitant, stalled, brain-drained, and Levandowski et al left because they were sick of it
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Waymo v. Uber is an extraordinary case because Uber is basically the only company everyone hates enough to root for Google attempting to crush a smaller firm with a lawsuit
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Bigger Company Gets Complacent, Gets Ass Kicked, Files Lawsuit is an old familiar story and the only reason why it's not sticking as a narrative is because Uber is so ridiculous
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Uber's story is the Michael Douglas speech in earnest, Waymo's story is the Michael Douglas speech as critique
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Texts RON: "We need to have hard terms from tk, no vest 100bp report etc … No compromises" AL: "Or else we destroy him” Lior Ron says "him" is Kalanick lol
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