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So what did Anthony end up w after all this?

I thought I heard he had a $100m bonus from Google at some point. Then he sold Otto later to Uber for $600m+?

After all the mess, what's he left with?

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The $600M was likely funny money, i.e. stock with vesting conditions. It's unlikely he has much of that. His Google pay was supposedly $120M, so after tax he should still have at least $60M left.

>after tax he should still have at least $60M left

I wonder if he spent some of that on Otto. They had 91 employees at the end, and I assume some of amount of capital equipment.

With his credentials and track record, he would be able to easily raise 8 figures quickly, without much need to risk your own capital.

Otto did not raise any rounds. Having external stakeholders would've made their shady deal even harder to pull.

Indeed, it would not have passed even a cursory due diligence.

ah in which case... he likely did put in personal capital until the uber deal went through (it closed very quickly after the company's founding, like 12~16 months iirc?)

I don't know that the Uber buyout of Otto recouped that loss for him. It may have been an all-stock deal, and he had to forfeit his $250M portion: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-31/fired-ube...

From the article:

"With the purchase of 510 Systems and Anthony’s Robots, his salary, and bonuses, Levandowski earned at least $120 million from his time at Google."

Many believe there won't be much of a financial impact due to forced arbitration which may still be in process, but I believe any progress or result is still confidential at this time. Criminal prosecution may happen separately?

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=levandowski%20arbitration&sort...

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