Anthony Levandowski
Anthony Levandowski is a French-American engineer and a co-founder of Google's self-driving car program, now known as Waymo, where he served as a technical lead from 2009 to 2016. He currently leads Pronto, an autonomous-haulage company focused on off-road vehicles for mining and construction that was acquired by Travis Kalanick's venture Atoms. He is known for co-founding Otto, which was sold to Uber in 2016, and for subsequently being at the center of a trade-secrets lawsuit between Waymo and Uber that resulted in a federal conviction later pardoned by President Trump.
“I actually think it does speak to the argument that they were right not to try and fund this thing at Uber for the last decade too.”
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