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I assume she's waiting on a call from Uber now. She has an established specialty of piloting ships already headed for the rocks.

Edit: And she's probably a good candidate to purge the misogyny problem.

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That's a very interesting idea of her heading to Uber... I wonder how she would fare there. It would do a lot to have a woman running a company to rid the "misogyny problem" but she might also be able to grow the company. Uber is not a bad company, it just has bad leaders. If Uber were run by someone with more tact, accumen, and ethics, it would be a great company.

Travis Kalanick doesn't seem like the kind of person who would voluntarily give up his position. I don't think Marissa Mayer would be interested in anything less than CEO. I wonder if he'd be open to a co-CEO, bringing her on to clean up all the garbage.

Those do seem to be the gigs where boards are most willing to take a chance on a woman CEO.

Indeed - this is actually a phenomenon with a name: the "glass cliff". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff

I am familiar with the concept of the glass cliff, but when things are going smoothly, why would a company (which we already know are statistically mostly run by men) change leadership? If leadership mostly changes during times of turmoil, and the female population in leadership is growing, wouldn't the two correlate quite strongly irrespective of motive?

There may be something to that idea, but the Wikipedia article mentions several studies that cannot be explained that way. For example, the study discussed in "Origins" looked at companies who were adding new board members, and discovered that they were more likely to add a woman if the company had been performing poorly in the preceding months. If the glass cliff phenomenon is simply a result of increasing availability of women in leadership, then you would expect that study to show no difference between companies performing well and companies performing poorly.

Yahoo had a female CEO before Mayer, I think. Carol Bartz (from Autodesk) ran it from 2009-11.

Uber is heading for the rocks? What did I miss?

There seems to be a new scandal every day currently, and has been for a few weeks now since the Susan Fowler story broke: https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...

Is anyone aware of these outside of the HN/SV tech bubble? When I mention them to non-tech people here in Paris I found absolutely no one aware of these daily scandals.

The New York times article a few days ago was pretty bad, and I expect that made the scandals much more mainstream

My aunt which comes out of the fashion world and is trading at the stock market told me that uber is dead. She mostly trades in fashion stocks and the obvious blue chips. So this is probably well known in the finance world.

It would be more accurate to say rocks are being thrown.

"It would be more accurate to say rocks are being thrown."

No, considering their brazenly illegal and proudly criminal behaviors, they exist in a rock pit of their own digging.

If you build a company by digging a ditch labelled "screw the law", you can't complain when you're neck deep in legal troubles.

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