Uber's long-time chief business officer to resign Monday amid investigation into company's culture

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Source: Business Insider

Uber's long-time head of business, Emil Michael, is planning to resign as early as Monday, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal's Greg Bensinger.

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As one of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's closest confidants, Michael oversaw Uber's broader business strategy, including partnerships and fundraising. He has been with Uber since 2013 and currently holds the title of chief business officer.

Michael's rumored resignation comes amid an investigation into Uber's work culture, including several scandals in which Michael was known to have a direct role in.

In 2014, Michael had threatened to dig up dirt on a journalist who covered the company. He was also one of the Uber executives who went to a karaoke bar in Seoul on a business trip that same year, where executives reportedly picked out women with numbers around their necks to be with them for the night. On Friday, Recode reported that Michael had also allegedly seen the medical reports of a rape victim that had been obtained by another Uber executive, who was subsequently fired after journalists started investigating the story.

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Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/emil-michael-uber-chief-business-officer-to-leave-company-report-2017-6

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Who would have thought an arrogant Randian frat boy culture of entitlement and harassment would have negative consequences?

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1. Pfoufle left just

….in time.

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2. Good. These guys let "power" go to their heads. nt

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3. In a better world, Uber would have been run by grown ups

They would be attracting and retaining good drivers who would take care of the customers, and be able to earn a decent living doing so.

They would be honest and helpful with the drivers about what it really takes to run and maintain a vehicle-for-hire service.

Instead, let by an egotistical asshole who wanted to build a monopoly on the backs of his drivers (and increasingly, his customers), Uber has become the punchline of a bad joke.

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4. Uber board to discuss CEO Travis Kalanicks role amid criticism of company culture

Uber board to discuss CEO Travis Kalanick’s role amid criticism of company culture

http://globalnews.ca/news/3519091/uber-travis-kalanick-role/?utm_source=GlobalNational&utm_medium=Facebook

By Joseph Menn and Heather Somerville | Reuters | June 11, 2017 5:05 pm


SAN FRANCISCO, June 11 (Reuters) – Uber‘s board will discuss Chief Executive Travis Kalanick temporarily stepping away from the embattled ride-hailing firm and consider sweeping changes to the company’s management practices at a meeting on Sunday, according to a person familiar with the situation.

The person briefed on the matter said the board will discuss Kalanick taking time off from the company. The discussion involved the possibility that Kalanick might return in a role with less authority, this person said, either in a position other than CEO or as CEO with narrower responsibilities and subject to stronger oversight.

The source said it is not clear that the board will make any decision to change Kalanick’s role. The board is expected to adopt a number of internal policy and management changes recommended by outside attorneys hired to investigate sexual harassment and the firm’s broader culture. The outside lawyers made no recommendation about Kalanick.

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The meeting, which Uber has not publicized, could be a pivotal moment for the world’s most valuable venture-backed private company, which has upended the tightly regulated taxi industry in many countries but has run into legal trouble with a rough-and-tumble approach to local regulations and the way it handles employees and drivers.

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