# Anthony Levandowski: person

Canonical ID: `b3658d0f-bdfd-4a78-81ee-b7982f76b74a`

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.

- **Nationality:** American
- **Verification posture:** verified

## Current roles (1)

- [Pronto](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/pronto.md) Founder & CEO (secondary-verified)

## Foundings (1)

- [Pronto](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/pronto.md) (sole)

## Former / Previously (1)

- [Google](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/google.md) Lidar / self-driving engineer (former) (secondary-verified)

## Sources (1)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Levandowski


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