SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Notoriously Nasty Burger King at Civic Center Has New Tenant: Travis Kalanick’s Ghost Kitchen Outfit The beleaguered Burger King at Market and Grove Streets vacated that space in 2019, and now has a new tenant in ex-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick’s CloudKitchens ghost kitchen operation.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Possible Arson Attempts Hit Travis Kalanick’s Ghost Kitchen Travis Kalanick’s follow-up to Uber, a caboodle of secretive ghost kitchens in SoMa, suffered a break-in and a fire last week.
Business & Tech In New Book, Uber Whistleblower Susan Fowler Describes Early Red Flags, and a Warning Not To Date Travis Kalanick "Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber," is a memoir of Fowler's upbringing, education, and ultimately her brief stint in the engineering department at Uber ca. 2015-2016.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One Ghost Kitchen Complex In SoMa Is Making Food For Dozens of Delivery Brands Have you recently ordered food on a delivery app from "American Eclectic Burger," "Fork & Ladle," or "Red Corn Taqueria"? Because these are all ghost restaurants operating out of so-called "ghost kitchens" in SF.
Business & Tech New Book Describes Travis Kalanick Meltdown Amid 2017 Uber PR Crisis In a new book about Uber's rise, there's a scene in which CEO Travis Kalanick is writhing on the floor of a marketing executive's home repeating, "I'm a terrible person."
SF News Travis Kalanick Moves To Undercut New Uber CEO, Appoints Two New Board Members By Surprise The Uber drama continues after a late Friday "surprise" by former CEO and current board member Travis Kalanick that is being characterized by sources as a blatant move to undercut new CEO Dara
SF News Uber Sued Again By Jilted Investors, Harassed Female Riders Travis Kalanick may be out as Uber CEO, but he’s still being named in fresh new lawsuits against the rideshare giant. In what may be the most financially significant lawsuit yet against
SF News Kalanick Reportedly Cries As He Passes Torch To New Uber CEO At an all-hands meeting at Uber HQ in San Francisco this morning, former CEO Travis Kalanick was reportedly crying as new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi (pronounced cause-row-SHA-hee) was introduced to the company. Uber's board
SF News Uber Board Names New CEO, Expedia Chief Dara Khosrowshahi Uber's board made a somewhat surprising decision Sunday to appoint Expedia chief Dara Khosrowshahi to the open CEO role at the company, settling two months of unrest at the company and setting aside
SF News Ongoing Uber Drama: Travis' Texts, Big Name Departures, And Lyft Is Doing Awesome The endless drama unfolding over at Uber might as well be programmed by Bravo TV. Here's the latest: In the lawsuit filed against Uber by Waymo, we get a look at a bunch
SF News Key Uber Investor Sues Travis Kalanick To Get Him Off The Company's Board Fasten your seatbelts, Uber watchers. The company's ride is about to get a good bit rougher. Benchmark Capital, an early investor in Uber which maintains a seat on Uber's board of directors, is
SF News Travis Kalanick May Be Angling For A Shareholder Battle To Return As Uber CEO It sounds like ousted Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was not speaking lightly when, as we heard last week, he was talking about "Steve Jobs-ing it" and returning to head the company just two
SF News Uber's CEO Short List Is Now Down To Three White Guys Despite appearing to intend to hire a female chief executive as a means of reshaping Uber's corporate image as a fratty boys' club, it looks like Uber is going to end up with
SF News Travis Kalanick Claims He Is 'Steve Jobs-ing It' To Get Back Inside Uber It remains unclear which tech titan will take over running Uber following Travis Kalanick's recent departure, but the ride-share company founder and former CEO wants back in. According to Recode, Kalanick told several
SF News BuzzFeed Exposé Details Uber's Out-Of-Control 'A**hole Culture' There has not been a new Uber scandal breaking today (though we're still a while from the end of the business day Pacific Daylight Time). There is, however, an epic, 6,500-word exposé
SF News Nobody Wants To Be Uber's Next CEO "You couldn't pay me enough money to take that job" is a response most likely heard when it comes to dangerous (skyscraper window washer), depressing (animal cop), or gross (BART janitor who doesn't
SF News Is Marissa Mayer In Line To Be Uber CEO? She Defends Kalanick: 'I Don't Think He Knew' Marissa Mayer, the former CEO of Yahoo, took the stage at the yearly Stanford Directors' College at Stanford Law School yesterday and defended embattled Uber founder Travis Kalanick, whom she calls a friend.
SF News [Update] Uber Maybe Knew Self-Driving Exec Had Waymo's Stolen Files The latest court filing by Uber in the self-driving technology case brought by Waymo has them thoroughly throwing former self-driving vehicle division head Anthony Levandowski under the bus. The filing suggests that Uber,
SF News Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Resigns Under Pressure From Key Investors After some Tuesday night drama in Silicon Valley involving Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and several key investor in the embattled ride-hailing company all worthy of Silicon Valley the HBO show Kalanick has resigned
SF News Uber Finally Adds Tips For Drivers Signaling that possibly only one man has been standing in the way of Uber drivers being able to receive tips from passengers as they can with ride-hailing rival Lyft, the company announced Tuesday
SF News Time Magazine Takes On Uber With Brutal, One-Star Cover Scroll down for updates. A look at recent coverage of ride-hailing company Uber is, forgive the expression, like watching a car crash. It's horrible (for everyone, including employees, drivers, passengers, investors, and people
SF News Prominent Silicon Valley VC Resigns From Uber Board After Making Sexist Remark During Meeting About Uber's Sexist Culture After a damning report on its unsurprising sexist, tech bro culture was released on Tuesday, Uber held an all-staff meeting to discuss the findings. As board member Arianna Huffington hailed the addition of
SF News Travis Kalanick Confirms Leave From Uber; Company Told To Curb Employees' Alcohol & Drug Use Confirming what has been credible rumor since Sunday, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced Tuesday that he would be taking an indefinite leave of absence from the company he founded to "work on Travis
SF News Confirmed: Longtime Kalanick Confidant Emil Michael Is Out At Uber Uber SVP Emil Michael leaves company after board unanimously approves Holder Report recommendations https://t.co/WRY0VaDqiX pic.twitter.com/l5biYgJivO— Forbes (@Forbes) June 12, 2017 Uber's second in command, Emil Michael, the
SF News Uber Board Said To Be Considering Leave Of Absence For Kalanick Uber's board of directors is meeting Sunday in Los Angeles to discuss the possible firings or forced resignations of some of its high-level executives in the wake of the results of a months-long
