SAN FRANCISCO Travis Kalanick, the famously combative chief executive of Uber, took the stage at a Vanity Fair conference in San Francisco last October and quickly faced a prickly question. Why all the blunders at the company, Vanity Fairs editor, Graydon Carter, asked. And had Mr. Kalanick learned anything?
Off in the wings of the auditorium, Bill Gurley appeared to tense.
Mr. Gurley has a lot riding on Uber. His venture capital firm, Benchmark, bought into Uber six years ago, when the ride-hailing company was a mere pipsqueak. Today, what was a 20 percent stake in Uber is worth billions.
Källa: In Silicon Valley, a Voice of Caution Guides a High-Flying Uber – The New York Times
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