Kalanick Had Explaining to Do in His First 45 Minutes as Witness
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Some evidence may not look so good for Travis Kalanick’s innocent explanation that he and the self-driving car rock star he poached from Waymo, Anthony Levandowski, were just “brothers from another mother.”
Like when Kalanick was asked Tuesday at the trade-secrets theft trial about his December 2015 meeting with the head of Uber’s driverless car program in Pittsburgh, following a meeting he had two days earlier with Levandowski, who was then still working for Google. According to the notes of the in-house meeting shown to the jury, Kalanick outlined a list of things he wanted: “source, all of their data, tagging, road map, pound of flesh, IP.”