From Bloomberg:
One of Silicon Valley’s most highly prized engineers filed for bankruptcy after Google won a $179 million award against him over his defection to Uber Technologies Inc.....MORE, including the ongoing criminal case.
Anthony Levandowski’s understanding of self-driving cars spawned multimillion-dollar bidding wars for his talent, but he got caught between the companies’ fierce competition in the race to own the technology.
Financial and legal liabilities that had steadily mounted for years finally proved too much when a San Francisco state judge refused Wednesday to release Levandowski from an award that Google won in arbitration over his violation of an agreement to not poach employees.
The ruling leaves Levandowski on the hook to repay a $120 million bonus Google once paid him, and when interest and attorney fees were added, the amount swelled enough that the judge called it “pretty staggering.”...
We have dozens of posts on L'affaire Levandowski, here's an appetizer:
The Third Rate Bromance of Travis Kalanick and Anthony Levandowski (plus Elon Musk does a drive-by)
And here are the results of a search of the blog.
