Uber executive Lior Ron paid the arbitration settlement to Google in early February, based on documents seen by Forbes. Uber has said in filings it will cover settlements for both Ron and Anthony Levandowski.
Uber Freight chief Lior Ron at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills in 2017.Another piece of the tangled legal fight sparked by Uber’s attempt to catch up to Google’s self-driving car program has been resolved, with the ride-share giant paying Google nearly $10 million to settle accusations that Uber executive Lior Ron had improperly recruited Google engineers.
Waymo, the commercial successor to Google’s Self-Driving Car Project, had claimed that Ron and Anthony Levandowski violated contract agreements for, among other things, convincing numerous Google employees to join them at Uber’s rival self-driving program after they left Google in January 2016. Waymo won a, though financial terms weren’t revealed at that time.
In total, Uber is paying $9.7 million on Ron’s behalf, based on a copy of settlement terms reviewed by. The amount includes more than $7.7 million of attorneys’ fees and court costs, and is well above last year’s initial determination by arbitrators that he should repay Google about $1 million. Arbitrators initially recommended that Levandowski, who is also, should reimburse Google $127 million. Details of arbitrators’ judgement with regard to Levandowski haven’t been revealed.
The arbitration panel determined Ron, who leads the Uber Freight business, “breached his duty of loyalty to Google, his contractual obligations to Google, and his statutory duty not to engage in unfair competition against Google.” His settlement doesn’t deny those actions. Levandowski continues to fight contract violation charges, his attorney says.
The settlement is a holdover from a drama-filled period in which Uber cofounder and former CEO Travis Kalanick and Levandowski joined forces to rapidly match Waymo’s self-driving car expertise. Kalanick saw robo-taxis that don’t need human drivers as the long-term guarantee of profitability for his ride-share business and bought Otto, the driverless truck startup Levandowski and Ron created after they left Google, for an estimated $680 million in August 2016.
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