[HN Gopher] Travis Kalanick's CloudKitchens Repeats Uber Playboo...
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Travis Kalanick's CloudKitchens Repeats Uber Playbook, Loses Staff
Author : coloneltcb
Score : 28 points
Date : 2021-04-22 19:36 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.businessinsider.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.businessinsider.com)
| thecleaner wrote:
| One good thing that has come out of this is that there a precent
| for leaving ill managed companies. This kind of behaviour is
| unacceptable and its great that employees have set a precedent.
| wikibob wrote:
| Full text mirror?
| [deleted]
| t0mas88 wrote:
| https://archive.is/0ouFK
| sschueller wrote:
| Seriously, fuck Travis and anything he is involved with.
|
| Then again being up to the same shit again might actually get him
| in trouble this time around.
| dang wrote:
| Please don't do this here. Perhaps you don't owe $person
| better, but you owe this community better if you're
| participating in it.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
| magneticnorth wrote:
| "When some employees complained internally about what they felt
| was racist and misogynist branding created by CloudKitchens for
| customers, like "happy ending" for dessert at an Asian
| restaurant, Kalanick said the startup did not seek to accommodate
| the press or woke culture. "
|
| Wow.
|
| I am astonished that someone like Kalanick, who is in some ways
| so smart and business savvy, can make mistakes like this twice.
|
| In case anyone is unfamiliar with early Uber culture, I highly
| recommend reading Susan Fowler's account of being a female
| engineer at Kalanick-heyday-era Uber.
| https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...
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