About this episode
The episode discusses Linwei Ding's actions as a Google engineer who stole confidential information to start his own company.
Linwei Ding was a software engineer at Google, assigned to the team building the AI infrastructure that the entire industry was racing to replicate. He had access to confidential material most engineers only read about. And for a year and a half, he used it to quietly copy over 2,000 pages of Google's most closely guarded technical secrets, file by file, right under their noses. He had a startup in Shanghai waiting for him, investors lined up in Beijing, and a one-way ticket out of the country.
People in this episode
Guest: Linwei Ding
Topics covered
- insider threat
- AI infrastructure
- corporate espionage
- software engineering
- startup culture
Keywords
- insider threat
- AI
- software engineer
- corporate espionage
- startup
- confidential material
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Google
Places: Shanghai, Beijing
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