Uber co-founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick plans to sell nearly a third of his stake in the ride-hailing service, a news report said Thursday. The deal is part of a transaction with investors including Softbank Group Corp. and would bring Kalanick about $1.4 billion, Bloomberg reporte...
The New York Times, referring to its informants, writes that Travis Kalanick personally gave permission to pay hackers a ransom of $100,000 and conceal information. But Bloomberg at Uber said Kalanick found out about what happened a month after the hack. The ex-head of the company himself ...
It is said that Travis Kalanick, who resigned as Uber’s boss in June, has been reading Shakespeare’s “Henry V”. Prince Hal’s transformation, from wastrel prince to sober monarch, is doubtless one he would like to emulate. But as a guide to the ride-hailing firm’s financial dilemma...
Uber was co-founded by Travis Kalanick, a bro-y alpha nerd who’s been coding since he was in sixth grade and whose first brush with success came in the late ’90s while he was still an undergrad at UCLA. (That venture, called Scour, an early experiment in Napster-type file sharing...
travis kalanick, uber's embattled ceo, wrote in a blog post published this morning. the move resonates on multiple levels, given the ongoing legal attack against uber's existing computer vision technology by waymo---the driverless car company that grew out of google---and the widespread ...
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick to take time away from the company Not only that, but the quality of existing talent — and Uber's edge over other companies — has been slipping since April, according to Paysa. "So I have spoken to a lot of you personally, and I know that you're polishing...
Just Levandowski (right) and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, hanging out.Credit: TONY AVELAR/AP/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK We finally know what it takes to get fired at Uber. No, not allegedlypropositioning your subordinatesfor sex, but pleading the Fifth Amendment in a massive court case in which you're ...
Uber's ousted co-founder and CEOTravis Kalanickstill owns 8.6% of the company, according to the filing, making him the third-biggest stakeholder with 117.5 million shares. With the company expected to debut with a valuation up to $100 billion, Kalanick's stake could be worth nearly $9 bill...
The video was filmed on February 2016, and the speaker is Travis Kalanick, the co-founder of the peer-to-peer file sharing company Red Swoosh and the transportation network company Uber. The purpose of this memo is to understand the goal that Uber is trying to achieve. 553 Words 3 Pages...
mathur argues, referring to uber ceo travis kalanick. meanwhile, because fleets pay drivers a fixed rate, mathur says drivers stand to make more money than they would on uber, which has recently come under fire from drivers who say they’re making far less than the $90,000 annual salary ...