The buck stops at the CEO. I get why the culture can get out of control and different people have different reactions to the environment created and no one person is responsible for the creation of culture but the CEO is the one who is responsible for course correction and making sure shit doesn't get out of hand. That's the failure.

The two other specific failures that also are hard to defend:

1) Rape report from the case in India - TK should have fired the exec for the violation of privacy and disrespect to the victim. The fact that he saw the report and didn't do much about it is a failure.

2) Otto mess - not going to assume he knew or did not know but it's a failure of judgement to drive that acquisition without properly making sure he didn't expose the company to such a high degree of legal risk.

At the end of the day, his reputation for risk and brashness cuts both ways. I lean towards believing he's someone who will do what it takes to win and I respect that. If you get caught though, be prepared to suffer the consequences if you cut a few corners getting there.

* BTW this shit isn't unique to Uber - anytime $BBBs are on the line, people will do things they might normally not do.