This sort of attitude is why tech has a reputation as a privileged boys club. These qualities may have helped in the early days but he also applied them internally and to great negative effect. How you can conveniently ignore that is beyond me.
There is a mountain of poor decisions that put Kalanick in the dog house. The culture he created at Uber is notoriously toxic, senior management has been either leaving in disgust or forced out over malfeasance.
Kalanick should gain some humility and leave it to the adults on his board to find someone who can run Uber responsibly.
'Responsibly' is a pretty subjective term in the context of Uber. If Kalanick had been running Uber by any conventional definition of 'responsibly', it would be a fraction the size it is today.
And it's still nowhere close to what I imagine Kalanick imagines. Short sighted investors will see Lyft, Ola, Grab, Didi as competitors. Kalanick will see private car ownership as competition. I have a feeling if he doesn't come back, Uber in it's current form is the best of it we will see. If Benchmark would have had 20% control over Facebook, it would be the best social network colleges ever had. Nothing more.
There is a mountain of poor decisions that put Kalanick in the dog house. The culture he created at Uber is notoriously toxic, senior management has been either leaving in disgust or forced out over malfeasance.
Kalanick should gain some humility and leave it to the adults on his board to find someone who can run Uber responsibly.