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Just yesterday, I got some serious flak for suggesting that changing one person in leadership wasn't enough to make them not evil. I'm sad to see just how bad t

Just yesterday, I got some serious flak for suggesting that changing one person in leadership wasn't enough to make them not evil. I'm sad to see just how bad this is/was, but I'm not one bit surprised.

pishpash 9y ago
This happened last year.
- stochastic_monk 9y ago
  But the coverup persisted until just now. Kalanick has been gone for almost half a year.
  - HaloZero 9y ago
    The new CEO has only been around for a month or two. I imagine it's a lot of information slowly coming forth.
    - ballenf 9y ago
      The SoftBank due diligence team likely uncovered it.
leCapitalist 9y ago
The new CEO found out about this, publicly disclosed it then fired the people responsible. Seems like progress to me.
potatolicious 9y ago
I think it's progress. Culture does tend to come from the top down - and just like dogs companies do have a habit of resembling their upper management. Looks like they fired two people over this, pretty immediately at that. Uncertain if the new CEO was aware of the cover-up until (presumably) contacted for comment by a news org. The fact that the cover-up persisted this long is bad, but on the other hand the Kalanick-era Uber probably would've gone to war with the journalists breaking the stories rather than admit fault, so there's that.