Mr. Kalanick, obviously, who built Uber in his own image. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyOne reason Mr. Kalanick was granted this deference was that Uber had a lot of ways to get money. Mr. Kalanick, meanwhile, was allowed to operate more or less solo, to micromanage a company that grew to enormous scale, and was left alone even when the firm’s problems became plain to see. Then there’s the harassment of riders, epitomized by the incident in which Uber’s executives, including Mr. Kalanick, obtained and reviewed a rape victim’s medical records. Then there’s the sketchy story of Uber’s purchase of a self-driving truck start-up, Otto, that landed it in a legal dispute with Waymo, Google’s sister company.

Source: New York Times June 21, 2017 19:37 UTC