In June 2017 Travis Kalanick was grieving for his mother in a Chicago hotel when two of Uber's investors arrived with a letter asking him to resign. This episode follows the whole road there: the file sharing company sued for more money than the film industry was worth, the six years living with his parents, the night in Paris with no taxi, the decision to copy Lyft and undercut every taxi in the world, the wars in China and India, surge pricing, God View, the culture that rewarded toe stepping, Susan Fowler's post, the shouting video, the Waymo lawsuit and the report that ended it.
It also covers the listing, the years of losses, the first profit under Dara Khosrowshahi, and what Kalanick does now. Founder Stories tells the story of one founder per episode, told plainly and in order.
