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Are you at Uber? Speaking as someone who is at Uber, I wouldn't say this is the case at all. Dara's successes have largely been on the PR front (huge successes)
by UberThrowaway13 8y ago
Are you at Uber? Speaking as someone who is at Uber, I wouldn't say this is the case at all. Dara's successes have largely been on the PR front (huge successes), some good partnerships and an exit in SENA which was probably the right move given circumstances but shouldn't have happened in the first place.
Things he hasn't done:
1) Kept Uber moving faster than competitors
2) Hired necessary leadership (CFO, CMO, CPO [he tried but the guy he hired originally was a total fraud. Huge swing and miss], etc.)
3) Driven focus on anything other than loyalty which is itself shaping up poorly
4) Gained back market share
5) Kept the best leaders. Losing Aaron Schildkrout alone was a massive loss, but there's been PLENTY of other leaders taking their sabbaticals and then quitting
Turning to Eats, if we got rid of that (no way we would) we would lose the most dynamic and fast moving part of our business. It's the only place that still has the talent and structure of Uber 1.0 but without the awful cultural problems.
- valuearb 8y agoI might be wrong on Eats, but I'm not wrong on the rest of the side businesses. And Dara has gotten the most important things right in the few months he's been there. You don't have choices in keeping foreign subsidiaries if your predecessor put the business on the route to bankruptcy, you shed what you have to shed before your cash on hand gets so low you lose all leverage in keeping the business financed. And if Aaron Schildkrout was so great, why was he working for Travis Kalanick, Stockholm syndrome? Why would you work for someone who constantly tarnished the company brand you needed in order to succeed in your job? It really sounds like Uber needs a complete house cleaning of it's entire upper ranks. You can play the "I was just following orders" card, but it also disqualifies you from being a true leader.