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I called for it in the Susan Fowler thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13747414#13749264 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13747414#13749264 I do
by grandalf 9y ago
I called for it in the Susan Fowler thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13747414#13749264 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13747414#13749264
I do wish it hadn't happened, though, I would have preferred if the company could have healed with him still managing to stay in control.
- danso 9y agoI wonder how things would have gone had Kalanick's family hadn't suffered that horrible tragedy a few weeks ago. That is, whether he would have had the energy/stubbornness to stay as CEO if he wasn't dealing with personal challenges at the same time as professional ones.
- anigbrowl 9y agoI'm sure that was a big factor. Turning a firm's culture around in this case would mean reinventing himself at the same time at the firm, and while that's doable it's a full-time thing. The loss of his mother and serious injuries sustained by his father in the same accident were a cruel twist of fate that would derail many people under the best of circumstances, never mind these more difficult ones.