Mr. Khosrowshahi was a long-shot candidate whose name did not become public until he had the job. At the same time in June that Mr. Kalanick was noisily being ejected from his company, Mr. Khosrowshahi had a problem of his own — his parents. “For the grown-ups, it was a difficult transition,” Dara Khosrowshahi told Bloomberg Businessweek this year. Barry Diller was a client, and Mr. Khosrowshahi eventually went to work for the media mogul. Around the same time, Mr. Khosrowshahi described his early experience as an immigrant in an email to employees.

Source: New York Times August 28, 2017 17:44 UTC