- Former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski was sentenced to 18 months in prison for using Google’s trade secrets at his self-driving truck startup Otto and Uber (acquired Otto in 2016).
- Levandowski was a superstar at Google, jumpstarting its self-driving technology division that eventually became Waymo.
- He stole documents from his time at Google, allowing Uber to gain access to sensitive and confidential data.
- Levandowski also has to pay Google $757K in restitution and $179 million (separate lawsuit) for poaching Waymo engineers.
