Fired Engineer’s Texts With Uber CEO Reveals Plan to Take on Elon Musk and Hopes to ‘Take Over the World’ Posted by August 16, 2017 Leave a comment on Fired Engineer’s Texts With Uber CEO Reveals Plan to Take on Elon Musk and Hopes to ‘Take Over the World’ Approximately 400 text messages between former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and former Uber and Waymo engineer Anthony Levandowski were released in a recent court filing.