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Before Uber became Public Enemy #1 and prior to the Otto/Levandowski dispute, Google was planning on competing with Uber despite being an investor, which led Kalanick to e-mail David Drummond about it [1]. Drummond eventually left Uber's board (which harkens back to Schmidt leaving Apple's board) but this was well after the relationship had been deteriorating.

[1] http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/595ea97dd9fccd31008...

stingrae on Oct 7, 2017 [–]

Was that really surprising? The company that builds the first self driving cars will have an easy entrance into the ride service industry.

IBM on Oct 7, 2017 | [–]

I'm not sure how that's relevant to the discussion.

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