With Waymo Settlement, Uber C.E.O. Makes His Mark

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With Waymo Settlement, Uber C.E.O. Makes His Mark

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With Waymo Settlement, Uber C.E.O. Makes His Mark
SAN FRANCISCO — For weeks, Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber’s chief executive,
and some of his lieutenants had worked behind the scenes to repair the ride-hailing company’s fractious relationship with Waymo, the self-driving business spun out of Google.
is to set the course for the future of the company: innovating
and growing responsibly, as well as acknowledging and correcting mistakes of the past,” Mr. Khosrowshahi said in a company blog post.
Mr. Khosrowshahi’s style is markedly different from that of Mr. Kalanick, who took a no-holds-barred approach to the business world.
In December, the ride-hailing company said Barney Harford, a former chief executive
of the travel site Orbitz, would become its chief operating officer.
Mr. Kalanick also testified that he became friendly with Anthony Levandowski, a former top self-driving researcher at Google.