Levandowski may be a jackass but that lawyer is not much better.
So his lawyer is just maintaining the same position that he did in court, otherwise this would be outrageous.
There is a certain amount of disregard for other people who want to make cool stuff too IMO.
Sure, he's not building war weapons or anything like that, but he stole the IP and he made an F* ton of money from it, specifically selling it to competitors. That seems like about the only malicious thing you could do with that IP, if you ask me. Being not malicious would be if it did that for free.
What are the odds that he ends up living kind of normal after this? Like living in the suburbs in a 2500sqft house and commuting to some job that pays $130k? I think close to nil.
That'd be some interview. "Could you tell us about a time when you had to resolve a difficult issue? Say when you nicked IP from Google and had to pay $179M as restitution? And could you then explain why we should trust you within a hundred miles of our IP?"
Although I would imagine if it was very egregious, like $1m toilets when essentially no one else has anything reasonably close to that, that a judge would probably strike that down and require you to liquidate it.
http://www.gibblaw.com/are-the-proceeds-from-sale-of-homeste...
Maybe what he did was wrong but I don’t like calling him a “jackass.”