I understand what your position is, but I'm asking why you hold it.
I have two reasons for asking this. First, criminality seems a really low bar to set before you can speak up about an ethical issue, and second, not speaking up about questionable ethical behavior often enables criminality to continue - Bernie Madoff springs to mind as a simplistic example.
I hold it because there's a huge value to being able to 100% trust your team/investors, and compromising it even for "cause" harms that, and on balance, is a bigger problem.
There are ~7b other people who can call out Uber's behavior who are NOT Uber investors. I don't think any particular value was added in this coming from Kapor vs., say, EKP. There are a lot of people who are not Uber employees or investors who have even more moral credibility here, too.
How are you quantifying this value to weigh one issue against the other? It seems like you're saying the potential profit is the defining factor for you, so I'm wondering where you consider the stakes to be valuable enough to override other considerations.
I don't see how people outside the team are supposed to call out bad behavior if they have no information about what's going on within the team because confidentiality is contractually enforced.
I have two reasons for asking this. First, criminality seems a really low bar to set before you can speak up about an ethical issue, and second, not speaking up about questionable ethical behavior often enables criminality to continue - Bernie Madoff springs to mind as a simplistic example.