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Waymo filing says Travis Kalanick knew engineer had Google info
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Re: Waymo filing says Travis Kalanick knew engineer had Google info
#23Why does this article not mention that when Kalanick found out that Levandowski had this material, he immediately told him that Uber didn't want it, and told him to destroy those discs? The Bloomberg article on this topic said this directly. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-22/ex-uber-c...
Perhaps for the same reason you didn't mention the possibility of contempt mentioned in the Bloomberg article?
There are multiple ways to tell a story. I realize partisans have discovered that yelling at journalists is a great way to distract from the underlying story, but it works better on Sunday shouty shows and swampy blogs.
Re: Waymo filing says Travis Kalanick knew engineer had Google info
#24Other articles on this subject note that upon hearing Levandowski possessed the stolen files, Kalanick advised him to destroy the stolen data and not bring it to Uber.
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#25Now just putting conspiracy theory hat for a moment, but can it be the real reason behind Travis walking out? Board got to know that this would come out and got rid of him to do some damage control?
Large organizations are always making decisions behind the scenes. I wouldn't call it a "conspiracy theory" in the "tin foil hat" sense. I would just call it a theory where actors conspired to oust Travis.
I think that's still called a conspiracy theory, but maybe with more supporting evidence than "aliens stole Waymo lidar".
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#26Hollywood, please wait until this plays out before writing the script and signing on a big name actor to play Travis[0] [0] http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/06/jennifer-lawrenc...
I think if they can get Melissa McCarthy they should go for it.
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#27I count 4 Uber stories on the front page today. There have been a few every week since the past few months. Will this sordid saga ever end? I feel this is like watching a newsreel about the same topics every few days.
Click "Hide"!
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suspect how long Uber has left is directly tied to Travis leaving - it was the main investors in the company that pushed him out. I suspect they used the threat of withholding a future round of funding to do so - with Travis out, I imagine Uber is safe to raise another round.
Seems like an empty threat. If they withhold funding their already sizable investments are lost. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Yes, but if Travis refuses to step down then the value of his sizable equity in Uber is also lost. So it's a battle of the wills.
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#29in all of this drama, as others have mentioned that the board may have been calculating the release of travis and perhaps others, all I can think of is just how complicit and shady everyone else on the board is. I can doubt they didnt know anything about uber's DNA and how much of a douche-factory they were running just to make a shit ton of money themselves. While I think that uber (ride sharing in general) has grea…
Because money.
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#30There is a podcast called The Dollop where one person essentially teaches another person about a particular subject. They recently did Uber and it was eye-opening to see just how shady this company has always been. I am not a fan of Uber but after listening to this I will never use them again.
Podcast link: http://thedollop.libsyn.com/271-uber