All the departures can't help but make you wonder what is up.<p>Something Scott McNealy told me about becoming a senior leader is this, "The higher you are in the company the more easily something you have no control over can get you fired." It isn't exactly intuitive but it builds on the notion of leadership that doesn't like the situation and wants to do <i>something.</i><p>I think Uber is navigating a really difficult time, some of the challenges are their own fault, some are situational, but the turmoil in the stories almost palpable. While it might be tempting for someone to leave thinking the ship is sinking, it could also be pretty powerful to be part of the leadership team that navigated through that time.
> It’s also not clear if he left as a result of the sexual harassment allegations, but something tells me that scandal probably didn’t make him particularly pumped to stick around<p>"I don't have any facts, sources, or even a quote to substantiate this, but hey, <i>something tells me</i> it's related"<p>Dude could have left for any number of reasons. Stick to reporting the facts.
FTA: "Marakby’s departure comes not too long after Uber lost its head of comms, president, head of AI Labs, VP of growth and SVP of engineering."<p>This feels like one of those things that's going to keep snowballing.
"If we are not tied for first [in autonomous vehicles), then the person who is in first, or the entity that's in first, then rolls out a ride-sharing network that is far cheaper or far higher-quality than Uber's, then Uber is no longer a thing."<p>(1) <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/travis-kalanick-interview-on-self-driving-cars-future-driver-jobs-2016-8" rel="nofollow">http://www.businessinsider.com/travis-kalanick-interview-on-...</a>
Is the rate of executives departing greater than at a similar-sized tech company? I'm skeptical that I'm being fed a narrative meant to drive readership. I don't mean to say that there is a conscious intent by media, but it could be a feedback loop of public interest which increases reporting about a subject.<p>Maybe it's wrong to doubt this, but I've been misled plenty of times by journalists committing the base rate fallacy, weaving unrelated events into a narrative, etc.
I guess the upside is there's so much bad news, nobody has to know exactly why you left. Probably nobody wanted to leave right after Susan Fowler's post, for fear of being viewed as complicit in that mess and being ousted as a result.<p>Edit: Bad wording. Not suggesting he was involved. Just saying now is a good time to go, earlier could have been awkward.
This is a reblog. The source: <a href="http://www.autonews.com/article/20170417/MOBILITY/170419851/uber-loses-another-top-executive-as-marakby-departs" rel="nofollow">http://www.autonews.com/article/20170417/MOBILITY/170419851/...</a>
How is it possible for them to continue recruiting talent at this rate? How does the company provide a clear direction for employees when executives are fleeing?
I think we should look at who in the executive is still around. Sometimes the group leaving and the group staying have different visions. The group leaving could have not agreed with Uber's current vision and the group staying refused to change or vice versa.