Uber power struggle hampers new chief's hand at the wheel
Board, voting proposals by Dara Khosrowshahi prompt countermove by ex-CEO Travis Kalanick
San Francisco
THE phone calls began late on Friday among Uber's new chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, and the ride-hailing company's executives, as well as board members and a raft of lawyers. They were facing an emergency.
The problem was that Travis Kalanick, Uber's former chief executive and a board member, had appointed two new directors - Ursula Burns, the former chief executive of Xerox, and John Thain, the former chief of Merrill Lynch - to the privately held company without informing them.
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