It seems to me that Kalanick was often “aware” of things but conveniently avoids scrutiny. How is this? Uber did so many questionable things under his leadership. And he managed to totally dodge the Levandowski saga.
Because the VC's funded Uber precisely because they knew that Kalanick was an asshole?
The people who gave him money did so with the expectation that he would pull out all the stops to become a mega-monopoly.
To top it off, Kalanick had been screwed by VC's before, so he made a particular point to structure stock ownership in such a way that he kept control. It's still not clear what deals were made to actually get him to go away.
Finally, I expect that Kalanick probably knows where all the bodies are buried. So, he probably knows even more shady things that were going on than have been exposed. So, he has leverage.
Edit: I was convinced by the arguments. I was holding onto old idea of him. Clearly things have changed.
It is impressive that he’s avoided any criminal or civil suits. I don’t know that he’s guilty of anything, but with the number of scandals swirling around him it’s surprising that someone hasn’t at least tried to sue him.
Neither person raised their voice or cursed, and I guess you can call it arguing but I did not see anything that was inappropriate behavior.
We are disagreeing right now, and maybe one of us has even been drinking -- does that mean that we are now ineligible to be CEOs?
This is not a forest fire, it's a nuclear reactor breach caused by greedy and irresponsible leaders.