Scott Galloway, a professor of selling at New York University’s Stern School of Business, compares the Uber chief to Sheryl Sandberg, “the pretty face” that obscures the injury their companies are doing to society.
“That’s the first time I’ve been called a pretty face,” Mr. Khosrowshahi stated wryly, earlier than permitting: “Our system doesn’t work for a certain percentage of drivers who can’t figure it out, who can’t understand how to make it work. I do think that for that percentage — and it’s probably 10 percent of our drivers but when you’re talking about 10 percent of a million drivers on the road — that’s a lot of people who want to earn and our system isn’t working properly for. I do think that we have to build better safeguards for people who can’t make our system quite work the way that they want to work, or we’re willing to work with regulators to have certain safeguards like minimum earnings.”
‘It Ain’t Called Laborism’
In 1979, when Dara was 9, his Muslim household fled Iran to flee the revolution, leaving the fortune that they had comprised of their massive pharmaceutical and cosmetics company. They moved to an uncle’s mansion in Irvington, N.Y., for a few months earlier than getting a condominium in Tarrytown.
Once, his mom, Lili, had shopped in Paris at Dior, Saint Laurent and Celine. Now she needed to go to work on the Madison Avenue Celine. Once, she had had a cook dinner, two gardeners, a driver and a…
