A new report in the New York Times offers some insight into what’s currently going on at Uber, which lost co-founder Travis Kalanick as CEO last month when he resigned amid widespread criticism and massive internal problems on the company’s board.
From the sounds of it, things are still as much of a mess as ever, as the company is “split in two camps,” with Kalanick a lone citizen on one side, and much of the company’s board and directorship on the other. Kalanick is now “plotting a comeback,” according to the story, and jockeying for a better position within the company despite being the source of much of its current chaos. Though there are now apparently four candidates on the shortlist to replace Kalanick as CEO, speculation that current HP CEO Meg Whitman would take the job ended last week when she publicly declared that she was not interested in the role. Apparently that news caused people involved in the ongoing search to feel “crestfallen,” according to the Times.
Even with strong candidates in line for the CEO gig, Kalanick’s continued presence on the board and clear involvement at a high level makes the company’s struggle to reinvent itself an increasingly uphill battle.
