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neuroanalysis on Aug 11, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to class...

He effort you have him ousted was led by Bill Gurley of Benchmark and several other VC investors in Uber. Essentially the board asked him to step down and he did.

cocktailpeanuts on Aug 11, 2020 | [–]

If you look it up, there are plenty of articles of rumors saying that the VCs schemed to kick him out because they wanted to IPO and the founder didn't.

strangeloopworm on Aug 11, 2020 | [–]

I mean if you expected a founder to be ousted partly because of not wanting to do an IPO, you'd expect the VCs to be the ones behind it no?

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