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Re:Travis Kalanick reportedly sought to reassert control at ... by toomuchtodo on Sunday August 06, 2017 @03:14PM (#14942929)
Perhaps Uber employees are willing to buy out investors holding grossly overvalued Uber stock if they believe in Travis more than Uber's board does.

It's easy to hold an opinion when it's other people's money.

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Re:Travis Kalanick reportedly sought to reassert control at ... by colbyh on Sunday August 06, 2017 @03:51PM (#14943103)
I think this is a great idea actually. They wouldn't be able to put together very much in the grand scheme of things (even 100 M raised from employees wouldn't even give them a point on the cap table) but it would be a strong signal at least.
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Re:Travis Kalanick reportedly sought to reassert control at ... by 19890309 on Monday August 07, 2017 @03:49AM (#14945926)
> It's easy to hold an opinion when it's other people's money.

Is this is the only metric to warrant having an opinion?! Every stakeholder has a right to speak their mind. For the employees, they may not have the money to buy into the business but they do so via sweat equity (effort + time + risk).

Your attempt to trivialize their involvement amounts to nonsense for these reasons.

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