Travis Shrugged
Uber's Emil Michael was apparently too awful, even for Donald Trump
A trove of leaked Trump Administration documents obtained by Axios shows that Michael was once considered as a potential candidate for Donald Trump's Secretary of Transportation. But there were a few, uh, "red flags."
Who is REALLY responsible for Uber's failed IPO? Uber.
At what point does the Valley in-crowd stop making excuses for this company?
Dara Khosrowshahi: A massive void where Uber's values should be
I’m hard pressed to think of any company aside from Uber that has so abdicated the benefit of the doubt but keeps getting it nonetheless.
Waymo vs Uber: Was it worth all that attention?
As the douche settles, let’s take a moment to ask: What was that all about?
Travis Shrugs: Pando goes to the Uber/Waymo trial, pt 3
With the benefit of court-ordered document disclosure, the public has been given an intimate view of the cult of toxic masculinity.
How laser is the sauce? Pando goes to the Uber/Waymo trial, pt 2
Just before noon on Tuesday, former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick stood before the tall wooden double doors of a federal courtroom in San Francisco...
Pando goes to... the Uber/Waymo trial
After a year of anticipation, the opening day's arguments landed with a whimper.
Tell me again why Uber is worth $69 billion?
Ridesharing has never been a strong network effects business.
Kalanick's payday shows there's no “evolution in corporate America”
There’s at best a disconnect between actors like BlackRock and those like Softbank and Uber.
As Softbank backs Uber and Didi buys 99, it’s sinking in how much Asia has dominated global ridesharing
About Dara Khosrowshahi’s end of 2017 “win” for Uber…
2017 ends much the same as it began for Uber: With more bad news
Didi is playing chess, while Uber plays checkers.
Are we starting to see cracks in the bro-economy?
You can only lose your money once… unless you counted on that paper valuation being real…
Sam Altman: I should have the freedom to say stupid shit, you should have the freedom to applaud
Not since Edward Snowden moved to Russia to protest American spying have hypocrisy and delusion been joined in such happy matrimony.
The only metric that matters: Uber’s lead over Lyft is slipping, losses are mounting
(And yet…. Softbank still wants to bail everyone out)
Uber’s customer is Softbank and its users are disposable
As lawmakers and the press universally express horror, Softbank is poised to reward everyone who enabled Travis Kalanick
Facebook's silver lining: Unlike Uber the founder has some level of board accountability
2017 isn’t a good look for Facebook.
London regulators find Uber "not fit and proper": A most damningly British indictment
Five whole levels worse than “not up to snuff”, two higher than “acting like a bunch of tossers”
Shocker! Shervin Pishevar has suddenly realized he can't be interviewed by me on stage at Harvard after all
"Let us strike tomorrow with the full and fulsome courage of our convictions."
“Money has karma”: Is the tech world’s standing ovation for Dara Khosrowshahi premature?
And just like that, everyone’s an Uber bull again.
Benchmark vs Kalanick (featuring Pishevar): A modern Silicon Valley morality play
How appropriate that the battle over the future of Uber’s board and soul has come down to a public fight, full of high-minded rhetoric as everyone tries to look like the most righteous player.
Brotopia is burning
Benchmark is shocked when law-breaking, anti-authority hero breaks laws and doesn’t respect their authority.
Falling knife: At $40 billion, Uber would still be overvalued
From first to fourth in less than a year… maybe being a private company isn’t easier after all.
Travis Kalanick isn't "Steve Jobs-ing" anything
Just a kid in the turtleneck, listening to to Bob Dylan and looking out the window.
This is my last story about Travis Kalanick
If you hold stock in Uber, here’s my take on your lot...
Cash flows before bros: Inside Bill Gurley’s pivot from Uber apologist to board dissenter
What yesterday’s leaked all hands audio tells us about Uber’s board.
Susan Fowler did this
After Emil Michael’s ouster, no toxic Silicon Valley bro should feel untouchable.
Monsters
Uber executives reportedly obtained and distributed the medical records of a rape victim with the aim of discrediting her.
After discrimination investigation, Uber quietly fires 20 employees and loudly hires two high profile female execs
But there's totally no systematic problem at Uber!