←back to thread

Bill Gurley Is Leaving Uber’s Board

(www.nytimes.com)
198 points 101carl | 1 comments | 22 Jun 17 00:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.196s | source
Show context
neil1 ◴[22 Jun 17 01:37 UTC] No.14609512[source]▶
I wonder if Travis resigning was contingent on Bill Gurley leaving the board. As Bill seems to be the main anti-Travis actor on the board.
replies(2): >>14609664 #>>14610029 #
andybg ◴[22 Jun 17 03:56 UTC] No.14610029[source]▶
It's unclear if Gurley actually wants to leave the board. Part of me thinks that he knows something really bad is coming down the pipes (e.g. potential criminal liability re: Otto, etc) and he wants to distance himself now. It's half a conspiracy theory, but makes you think ...
replies(2): >>14610329 #>>14610951 #
1. csmattryder ◴[22 Jun 17 09:00 UTC] No.14610951[source]▶
It's got to be the Otto lawsuit, that's obviously coming, after Levandowski dropped the ball with that "plead the Fifth" stuff.

Even the Google network forensics team have him bang to rights[1] taking data while on-site at the campus, Google would be mental to not launch a volley and destroy a potential competitor in the process.

And you don't drop $680m on an acquisition without going through board approval first, surely? Somebody's definitely complicit.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2017/02/googles-waymo-just-dropped-exp...