Uber CEO Travis Kalanick exited the company Wednesday after a stormy ride. Let’s look back at the potholes the company’s faced this year.pic.twitter.com/TsuIGFCbqI
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2/2: Kalanick steps down from Trump’s economic advisory council after critics called it an endorsement of the president.pic.twitter.com/1WyijgT4k7
2/19: Sexual harassment claims come to light. https://usat.ly/2srkqaA pic.twitter.com/F2LqvkIEpG
2/23: Early investors call the company’s culture “toxic.” https://usat.ly/2srAhGa pic.twitter.com/4i1hab3ne4
2/24: Uber gets sued over allegedly stolen driverless tech plans. https://usat.ly/2srkPdc pic.twitter.com/vj4lnyUaV4
2/27: A former sexual harassment claim takes down a senior vp one month into the job.pic.twitter.com/Ch6JP5zZXB
2/28: Kalanick says he needs to “grow up” after a video of him in a heated debate with a driver surfaces. https://usat.ly/2rWjzLJ pic.twitter.com/tuWIWzbyCT
3/7: The search for a chief operating officer begins.pic.twitter.com/veNH4tTyig
One day later, Uber admits it ducked regulators by using a tool that faked data. https://usat.ly/2rWtxfV pic.twitter.com/q1uxGRHx6S
3/19: Uber’s president quits. https://usat.ly/2rWLr2e pic.twitter.com/5o5VZDEAYj
3/21: @ariannahuff and other Uber board members say the company will clean up its act.pic.twitter.com/SjF8FIeDRw
Double whammy on 3/25: An HR complaint is lodged over a karaoke outing in 2014, and a self-driving test car crashes. https://usat.ly/2rWsMUb pic.twitter.com/5lo7SjeLb9
4/11: Another top exec leaves the company.pic.twitter.com/xNUdBbonOE
4/24: Reports surface of Uber tagging iPhones after the app was deleted; Apple threatens booting it from App Store https://usat.ly/2rWIX3P pic.twitter.com/L6LZlr1Vmz
4/25: An article suggests Uber is partly to blame for an engineer’s suicide.pic.twitter.com/1j60NhX6aX
5/4: The Justice Deptartment gets involved over the faked data. https://usat.ly/2rWibbT pic.twitter.com/sRejqo02hC
5/12: The judge in the driverless tech lawsuit recommends the AG look into criminal charges.pic.twitter.com/pSGXHIcmMH
5/15: The judge orders a top engineer to stop working on driverless tech.pic.twitter.com/xmDJFNPL2z
5/25: HR boss says the most pressing issues for employees were pay and appreciation.pic.twitter.com/kbF8vFgHtN
5/30: The engineer ordered to stop working on driverless tech is fired by Uber. https://usat.ly/2rWqFzy pic.twitter.com/k3uqJ2lKcE
6/5: A Harvard professor is brought in to fix leadership issues.pic.twitter.com/dRfn2SmpYp
6/6: 20 employees get canned. https://usat.ly/2rWmgwE pic.twitter.com/tJWVAC9TFi
6/7: A top exec gets fired after allegedly traveling to India to get the medical records of a woman raped by her Uber driver.pic.twitter.com/VpyhfrAtOJ
6/12: The defacto No. 2 at the company resigns. https://usat.ly/2rWp9Ob pic.twitter.com/9KUB43ykJQ
6/13: Another double pothole as Kalanick takes an indefinite leave of absence, and a major investor resigns after making a sexist remark.pic.twitter.com/R9EtI0d7Lt
6/15: The woman raped by her driver in India sues for taking her medical records without consent. https://usat.ly/2rWd7V0 pic.twitter.com/oipnGlY6mf
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