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Re:Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt Close to Becoming Uber’s CEO by mschuster91 on Sunday August 20, 2017 @06:45AM (#15057859)
I don't get why anyone would associate themselves with Uber at this point.

There is no fix for the "bro culture" at Uber except firing everyone and rebuilding the company from the ashes. Also, regulators are starting to apply pressure to all this "sharing economy" crap (Uber, Lyft, AirBnB, Foodora and friends) which is basically just exploitation of workers combined with open ignorance of laws and regulations... which means that there is no way Uber can justify its valuation except they manage to roll out fully autonomous driving in 2 years.

Re:Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt Close to Becoming Uber’s CEO by wenttomarket on Sunday August 20, 2017 @10:49AM (#15058600)
We've been fixing "bro culture" given that it's largely a myth propogated by a select group of SV tech writers via cherry picking a small group of bad apples that are in no way representative of the majority of folks at the company.

You associate with Uber if you want the chance to solve big problems with incredible teams to continually improve a product that you and millions of others rely on as a matter of necessity.

The "Uber exploiting workers" meme is a classic, and holds little water given the fact that everyone on the platform consents to be there and can leave at any time. If anything, the flexible earnings opportunity Uber provides is transformational to a group of people who have historically had to make insidious trade offs (money over family time) to keep the lights on.