Dara Khosrowshahi is officially Uber’s new CEO
Former Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is now officially Uber’s new CEO. The news was announced this evening in a letter to Uber employees sent by the company’s board of directors, and it marks the end of a search that lasted more than two months. Earlier today he called the job the “opportunity of a lifetime” in an interview with Bloomberg.
That search began in June when former CEO Travis Kalanick resigned under pressure from some of the company’s biggest investors. His demise was truly the result of a string of incidents — some related, some not — that date back to the beginning of 2017, though Uber has over the years experienced many other lows that match the highs Kalanick brought the company to.
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