The Uber Conflation

The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought

Silicon Valley CEOs are supposed to be sacrosanct. So how did it all go wrong at Uber?

Travis Kalanick's Return and the 'Bad Boys' Who Come Back

Uber founder Travis Kalanick is a CEO again, after investing $150 million in a real-estate company that owns parking lots.

Uber’s CEO is out because of pressure, not some ethical epiphany from the board

It’s hard to predict exactly how much pressure is needed to affect change, but it’s clear to see when there is enough. And there was finally enough to flush out Uber’s CEO. But let’s not kid oursel…

Super pumped: the battle for Uber

"A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era. In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world yet for many came to symbolize everything wrong with Silicon Valley. In the tradition of Brad Stone's Everything Store and John Carreyrou's Bad Blood, award-winning investigative reporter Mike Isaac's Super Pumped delivers a gripping account of Uber's rapid rise, its pitched battles with taxi unions and drivers, the company's toxic internal culture and the bare-knuckle tactics it devised to overcome obstacles in its quest for dominance. Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a page-turning story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth and bad behavior, that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic twelve-month periods in American corporate history"--

Uber’s New CEO

Uber has a new CEO, and the reason he is a great choice explain why the Uber job is still an attractive one.

Big Omaha - Travis Kalanick: 'Whatever it is that you're afraid of, go after it' - Silicon Prairie News

Travis Kalanick is the co-founder and CEO of Uber, a startup working to provide high-quality, on-demand car service booked easily through a user's iPhone or SMS. His previous company, Red Swoosh, was sold for $19 million in April 2007. Prior companies include Scour, the world's first p2p search engine, where Kalanick also achieved the distinction of being sued for $250 billion. After giving a brief background on his childhood, Kalanick jumped …

Uber’s Path of Destruction - American Affairs Journal

Since it began operations in 2010, Uber has grown to the point where it now collects over $45 billion in gross passenger revenue, and it has seized a major share of the urban car service market. But the widespread belief that it is a highly innovative and successful company has no basis in economic reality. An examination of Uber’s economics suggests that it has no hope of ever earning sustainable urban car service profits in competitive markets...

“Adapt or give up and become an Uber driver”: Diplo has harsh words for music producers sceptical of AI

The producer praised AI's ability to provide him with the "best" vocal takes, before doubling down on his controversial opinion on X.

Did Uber Steal Google’s Intellectual Property?

Silicon Valley was built on job-hopping. But when a leader of Google’s self-driving-car unit joined Uber, Google filed suit. Now the Feds are on the case.

Break Up the Tech Giants? No, Just Level the Field

Facebook, Google and Uber should be held to the same rules as their older rivals.

What Facebook criticism can teach us about A.I. criticism

The danger of accepting an industry's terms for itself

Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in 4 months | TechCrunch

Uber's cutback has occurred after the company had reportedly encouraged staff to use AI as much as possible.

Canicule : Uber Eats et Deliveroo suspendront les livraisons dans les départements en vigilance rouge entre 14h et 18h

Sur une éventuelle indemnisation, Uber Eats a expliqué que «les créneaux ont été délibérément choisis pour trouver un point d’équilibre entre l’enjeu prioritaire de la sécurité des livreurs tout en limitant l’impact sur les revenus».

Google Takes on Uber With New Ride-Share Service

Google is moving onto Uber’s turf with its own ride-sharing service in San Francisco that would help commuters carpool at far cheaper rates, according to a person familiar with the matter, jumping into a booming but fiercely competitive market.

Mr. Money Mustache, UBER Driver

About two years ago, I switched from taking my personal car to the airport, to hailing Ubers and Lyfts. The math of it was pretty simple: Uber was cheaper than paying for my driving and parking*. A…

Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs

I wrote the other day about Uber blowing its 2026 AI budget in four months, and how that wasn't particularly surprising given they would have set that budget in 2025, …