Ex-Uber Engineer Bankrupt After $179 Million Google Ruling
- Anthony Levandowski lost his challenge to arbitration award
- Self-driving wunderkind is fighting trade-secret theft charges
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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.
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.