Uber Legal Chief: Why The Ride-Hailing Giant Deserves A Minute Chance

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Tony West had a oil starting fourth dimension hateful solar daytime at Uber.

Instead of setting upwards his office, getting familiar alongside the estimator system, or locating the restroom, West was making calls to attorneys full general all over the dry reason to disclose a 2016 information breach that had non been reported yesteryear the society previously.

West is no stranger to complex problems, equally a one-time executive vice president at PepsiCo together with high-ranking Justice Department official inwards the Obama direction earlier taking the chore of primary legal officeholder at Uber inwards 2017. Cleaning upwards messes similar these together with turning approximately the company’s toxic reputation receive got been peak priorities for CEO Dara Khosrowshahi together with his leadership squad since the one-time leader of Expedia took the peak chore at Uber inwards August 2017.

“I knew at that spot would endure days when I’d opened upwards up the cupboard together with a skeleton that I hadn’t anticipated mightiness form of fall out, only luckily those days don’t occur equally often as they did when I starting fourth dimension started,” West said at the 2018 GeekWire Summit Tuesday.

Uber earned a reputation equally a scofflaw, oft running afoul of local regulations equally it grew to popular off one of the world’s nigh valuable startups. Soon afterward Khosrowshahi came on board, the society had lost its license inwards London, inwards some other low-point, next several simultaneous scandals over the previous year. It has since been restored on a conditional basis.

In Feb 2017, Susan Fowler, an ex-Uber engineer, published an essay detailing a civilization of systemic sexism together with a lack of accountability for bad demeanour that led many women to larn out the company. Fowler’s exposé, information breaches, and other scandals led to several internal and federal investigations. Those scandals eventually forced CEO Travis Kalanick to resign from his post, clearing the means for Khosrowshahi to accept the peak job.

Khosrowshahi’s tenure hasn’t been without problems of its own. In March, Uber pulled its self-driving exam fleet off the route for several months afterward a adult woman was struck together with killed yesteryear an autonomous machine inwards Arizona....MORE

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