Former Google employee fined 1.2 billion for stealing confidential documents, filed for bankruptcy

Last year when the competition on the live broadcast platform was the most fierce, the platform issued high-priced contracts to many head anchors. There are not a few ten million levels, and there are not hundreds of millions. In contrast, when they break the contract and change jobs, the platform will also ask them to Ask for sky-high compensation.

But their liquidated damages are still dwarfed by the real big international companies. Recently, Anthony Levandowski, a former Google employee, filed for bankruptcy with the court on Wednesday. The reason was that he was carrying Google’s USD 179 million liquidated damages (about RMB 1.241 billion).

Levandowski is an employee of Google’s self-driving company Waymo. After leaving, he founded his own self-driving truck company and was acquired by Google rival Uber.

Waymo then sued the court, alleging that Levandowski had stolen 14,000 documents from the company before leaving and transferred them to Uber, allowing Uber to quickly develop lidar.

The lawsuit ended in February 2018, and Uber was sentenced to pay Waymo $ 245 million.

Waymo also did not let Levandowski and some of his colleagues sue them for breach of contract. The court finally ruled that Levandowski would need to pay Google $ 179 million in liquidated damages.

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