Will McChesney

Super excited to be joining @Square today, and for the challenges that await me/us in the months ahead. [email protected]

Employers are legally required to create a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. But what about VCs? Independent contractees? @ginnyfahs argues the law needs to expand to these non-traditional models + in the meantime pushes VCs to share policies via #MovingForward

I witnessed a crypto ceremony conducted by @alokmenghrajani, and this is our attestation: c13af4d4 477f66e7 53f25d51 1b6c4624 9f20f79a f63c20d8 c64e34c9 df90441b 0bf89ae2 8c05d71c 4ae9cb82 e0a3aa4d 41e99666 c54261a9 b0b75f6a 5c455436

Uber lead trial council González: “Your honor, want to disclose Uber SSG did engage in a practice known as ‘reverse engineering.’ Won’t burden you with the details because I don’t understand them myself. Apparently another technical term is ‘API scraping.’” [quotations rough]

4)Must Waymo prove unjust enrichment?Or enough to prove trade secrets acquired? Allsup intuition: acquisition enough for injunction but not damages, but invites arguments citing decision by judge/commentary by state legislature.CACI (California Civil Jury Instructions) not enough

3)Disclosure by Arturo González (Uber lead trial council) that he+6 other MOFO partners were forwarded Jacobs’ non-37pg resignation letter, though he claims not to recall/have seen it. Chuck Duross/Stacey Sprenkel (also MOFO) may have seen Jacobs’ 37pg demand letter then (April!)

2) Was Uber witholding evidence by not handing over Jacobs’ 37-pager? They claim it was outside of agreed upon params (keywords, doc “custodians,” etc.). “Special Master” Cooper, a distinguished-looking neutral party appointed by Judge Allsup, will decide. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specia…

Main developments: 1)Uber contends that Waymo is hypocritical for calling out Uber’s use of ephemeral messaging when Google uses GChat/Hangouts OTR mode, and Uber wants to question ex-Googlers now at Uber about Google policy, to support this point. Waymo objects, Allsup overrules

At #WaymovUber, talk of terabytes of messages on “the server” at Uber. Apparently “the cloud” hasn’t arrived yet. Get on the buzzword train, y’all.

The firm representing Uber was literally referred to as “MOFO,” Morrison Foster. mofo.com

OH Uber council in elevator: “Haven’t been able to get into my email all morning. Figured out it was the VPN. As soon as I turned off the VPN it started working.” Careful!

“… This is a bogus stonewalling attempt to obstruct discovery. And they’re gonna show you [Waymo] do it [ephemeral messaging] just as bad as they [Uber] do it.”

Waymo objects to Uber asking own employees if any Google policy advised use of ephemeral messaging. Allsup: “You’re totally wrong on this. I’m overruling any objection. This is a direct order. And the public should know it. I can’t stand it when you want to have it both ways. …

Dispatches from 🍿🚗💽📁💨🌈👀town #WaymovUber

.@Square joins amicus brief in favor of Apple, with 16 others incl. Twitter, CloudFlare, Reddit, Twilio… #AppleVsFBI teapaw.org/ericgeller/status/7054…

Bay Area… #BabbageEngine must be seen, must be seen to be believed. Today (Sun) last chance to see! @ComputerHistory

Cool stuff. @ClaraLabs launches an automated, email-based personal assistant, trained and supervised by smart humans teapaw.org/ProductHunt/status/647…

Best JS text field formatter is now open source, thanks to @eventualbuddha, @JMT3, and @SquareEng Web Frontend team! teapaw.org/JMT3/status/6416527845…