When Google initially invested in Uber in 2013, Larry Page, Google’s chief executive at the time, and David Drummond, Alphabet’s top lawyer, were mentors, Mr. Kalanick said. But Mr. Kalanick said the engineers from Carnegie Mellon were not enough to catch up to Google’s self-driving car project, which would become Waymo. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyAs Mr. Kalanick and Mr. Levandowski discussed ways to work together, they exchanged hundreds of text messages. Mr. Levandowski told Mr. Kalanick that “second place is first” loser. But when asked about the Otto acquisition and the hiring of Mr. Levandowski, Mr. Kalanick was understated.

Source: New York Times February 07, 2018 23:26 UTC