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Bill Gurley Is Leaving Uber’s Board

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198 points 101carl | 3 comments | 22 Jun 17 00:23 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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johan_larson ◴[22 Jun 17 01:32 UTC] No.14609498[source]▶
I remain flabbergasted by all of this upheaval at Uber. What's happening is the sort of housecleaning I would expect if the company had to file for bankruptcy or got caught flat out bribing judges or something. But really, what triggered all this was acting like jerks.

It seems to me, what should have happened (a long time ago) was that they got shut down for systematically breaking the law, or encouraging others to do so. That would have made sense.

But instead they are getting flayed alive by not much more than bad press for being jerks. Makes no goddamn sense.

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madeofpalk ◴[22 Jun 17 03:18 UTC] No.14609906[source]▶
> But really, what triggered all this was acting like jerks.

If you trivialise illegal activity as "acting like jerks", then none of this really holds much water. They've been jerks the whole time.

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1. lmm ◴[22 Jun 17 09:40 UTC] No.14611068[source]▶
What's striking and weird is that flagrant illegal activity as a core part of their business model never seemed to matter, but now this huge upheval is happening in response to a small amount of (sure, illegal) personal behaviour.
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2. pjc50 ◴[22 Jun 17 13:56 UTC] No.14612243[source]▶
Uber made a lot of enemies, so as soon as it tripped they've all jumped on the opportunity.
3. _jal ◴[22 Jun 17 14:55 UTC] No.14612645[source]▶
One of the cultural sicknesses the U.S. suffers from. If you win, all is forgiven. If you lose, there must be something wrong with you.