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Anthony Levandowski
Self-driving-car engineer who led lidar work on Google's self-driving project (now Waymo), then founded the autonomous-trucking startup Otto in 2016, which Uber acquired months later. He was the central figure in the Waymo v Uber trade-secret case, later pleaded guilty to trade-secret theft (2020), and was pardoned in 2021.
American · 1 current role · 1 founding
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