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The theory is that you might be inclined to pay in order to avoid a scandal that would be costlier. For this kind of scandal, my armchair opinion is that you s
by on_and_off 9y ago
The theory is that you might be inclined to pay in order to avoid a scandal that would be costlier.
For this kind of scandal, my armchair opinion is that you still have to do something at least a bit murky in order to allow yourself to be black mailed.
- scoggs 9y agoAgreed. Back when the news of the payoff first became public things were a lot murkier in terms of the broad picture but now that we've had the lid peeled back and we can see a bit more. It seems a bit more obvious, to me at least, that Uber was and still is doing whatever it can to try to get to final valuation / being bought out / IPO before the severity of the scandal was fully known. I also think that we've reached the point of no return for that matter so I'm definitely interested to see how Uber and this entire debacle winds up.
- CodeWriter23 9y agoPerhaps there's an undercurrent of it being easy to spend someone else's 7.5M (ALL of Uber's money is VC money) to avoid the scandal.