The leaked documents show that the early days of the company were bad. More than 83,000 emails and text messages exchanged between Kalanick and other executives were included in the leak. Kalanick stepped down as CEO of the company.
The Guardian shared the trove with 180 journalists at 40 outlets across 29 countries. Many of the company's executives thought the company was doing things that were not legal.
Kalanick is said to have ordered his employees in France to encourage local drivers to counter- protest the taxi strikes that were happening in Paris. The former CEO pushed back when he was warned that the protesters were right-wing extremists. He thinks it's worth it. Success is guaranteed by violence. These guys need to be resisted.
Kalanick's response was consistent with a strategy of "weaponizing" drivers and the company returned to in other countries, according to a former senior executive.
The company went to lengths to get away from scrutiny. The "kill switch," an internal tool the company developed to protect its data, was used in at least 12 instances.
Kalanick wrote in an email that he wanted to hit the kill switch. He said that access must be shut down in AMS. Authorities entered the building only to see all the computers and tablets at the same time. The company told The Post that it stopped using the system in 2017:
"We have not and will not make excuses for past behavior that is clearly not in line with our present values," saidJill Hazelbaker, the senior vice president of marketing and public affairs. We want the public to judge us by what we did over the last five years and what we will do in the future.
Any suggestion that the former executive was involved in illegal or improper conduct is completely false according to the statement.
They said that the expansion initiatives were led by over a hundred leaders in dozens of countries around the world.
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