Then, one piece of SPAM blew his entire con game and landed him in prison. A few short years later, Kent had built the membership of Oilpro up to 500,000 users and DHI was interested in purchasing it for something like $20 million. But shortly after it expired, he started a similar site,, hoping to create another acquisition target for DHI. As part of this sale, Kent agreed to a non-compete agreement. In 2010, Kent sold it to DHI Group (then known as Dice Holdings) for $51 million. David Kent built a social networking site for oil company professionals called. “Sinovel nearly destroyed an American company by stealing its intellectual property,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Cronan in a statement. According to evidence presented at the resulting trial, the company lost more than $1 billion in shareholder equity and almost 700 jobs-over half its global workforce. The theft was discovered because a supplier, asked by Sinovel to do the retrofit, got suspicious. Once it had the code, Sinovel retrofitted its wind turbines with it, thereby saving itself the $800 million price tag.
Before he left, he secretly downloaded the code to an offsite computer. Karabasevic did not simply get a better job offer from Sinovel, he was recruited by the company, one of AMSC’s largest customers, and asked to bring that software with him. In his job at AMSC, Karabasevic-as head of AMSC Windtec’s automation engineering department-had access to the company’s proprietary technology for wind turbine efficiency. When Dejan Karabasevic left his job at clean-energy company AMSC to work for Chinese wind-turbine company Sinovel, a lot more was going on than a simple job jump. Related reading: Intellectual property protection: The basics Current Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi apologized publicly and promised that going forward, the company would “put integrity at the core of every decision we make.” In the settlement, Uber gave Waymo a 0.34 percent stake in its business (worth $245 million). In February of 2018, Waymo and Uber settled that suit.
Allegedly, before Levandowski left Google, he downloaded thousands of files including blueprints and brought them to Otto so he could sell them to Uber. The juicy part of the story is right there in that transition, where accusations fly that Uber’s then CEO Travis Kalanick was the director of a Levendowski-enabled plot to steal Waymo’s intellectual property and use it to kickstart its own driverless car program. Shortly afterward, in July of 2016, Uber bought Otto. In May of 2016, Levandowski left to found Otto Motors. There, he helped develop lydar, which was new then and is essential to the whole intelligent car endeavor. Levandowski once worked for Google in the autonomous car division that is now Waymo. But it looks as if his story-and that of the birth of autonomous vehicles-will include a significant insider data breach. The story of Anthony Levandowski is probably not yet completely played out.
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