The leaked documents span Uber’s dealings across 40 countries between 2013 to 2017—and reveal how the company used questionable practices to force its way into cities around the world.
to invest in Uber—as it did in 2016—was seen internally as a way to gain “their support and influence in Germany and Brussels,” as one Uber executive wrote in anoted Springer had “traditionally been somewhat close” with the taxi industry “so anything we could do to work with them would be great.”
A particularly damning revelation involves Kalanick’s apparent leveraging of violence against Uber drivers. Asbroke out in Paris between enraged taxi drivers and Uber in January 2016, Kalanick encouraged executives to respond with “civil disobedience,” a counterprotest involving “15,000 drivers” and “50,000 riders.” Whetstone warned Kalanick that MacGann was “worried about taxi violence” against Uber drivers.
Uber has responded to the leak by acknowledging its pitfalls while emphasizing improvements it has made since Kalanick, who severed his final ties with the company in 2019, resigned in 2017. "We have not and will not make excuses for past behavior that is clearly not in line with our present values," the company said in a statement. "Instead, we ask the public to judge us by what we've done over the last five years and what we will do in the years to come.
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