Uber’s CEO Says He’ll Always Find a Reason to Say His Company Sucks | WIRED
Dara Khosrowshahi swooped in to tame a beastly work culture and try to make the on-demand giant profitable. Now he’s expanding into trucks and boats, but he still sees Uber as a fixer-upper.
Save this story Save this story Fifty-one dollars and 69 cents. That was the charge, including tip, for the 2.95-mile trip I took last May from my downtown New York City apartment to the West Side facility where Uber was holding its annual product event, called Go-Get. The ride-hailing company’s charges have been higher in recent years, and fluctuate in any case, but that was nuts. The Big Interview Read more deep, weird, smart conversations with the most important people in our world. As Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi knows, high rates are one consequence of trying to run his company as an actual
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