mr kalanick believes the technology is vital if uber is to survive.d that he stole more than 111,000 alleged documents and then left google to set up his own company, then he sold it to uber. in a remarkable moment during the trial, the jury was shown this scene from the 1989 film wall street. the prosecution said travis kalanick acted like a real—life gordon gecko. the point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. greed is right. but convincing jurors that mr kalanick is something of a slippery operator was not going to be enough to win the case. what the prosecution had to demonstrate was that uber was using the stolen technology, and that was proving much more difficult. and so, the risk for google would have been that they were a bully and if they went after a competitor in order to suppress competition, rather than to vindicate their legitimate intellectual property rights. conversely the risk for uber, by continuing, would have been, well, what if we lose the whole thing? and so, this settlement is perhaps a goo