{"id":584896,"date":"2017-06-21T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=584896"},"modified":"2017-06-22T01:25:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T23:25:37","slug":"how-one-womans-blog-post-led-to-the-fall-of-a-silicon-valley-titan-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/fr\/2017\/06\/how-one-womans-blog-post-led-to-the-fall-of-a-silicon-valley-titan-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"How one woman\u2019s blog post led to the fall of a Silicon Valley titan \u2013 Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four months ago, former Uber engineer Susan Fowler Rigetti published a blog post alleging sexual harassment at Uber. Now CEO Travis Kalanick is resigning. How did it happen?<\/b>
\nIt started as one woman\u2019s complaint of sexual harassment at Uber. Four months later, the company\u2019s CEO, Travis Kalanick, is forced to resign.
Here\u2019s a look at how events unfolded:
Feb. 19 \u2014 Former Uber engineer Susan Fowler Rigetti publishes a blog post detailing alleged sexual harassment, which goes viral. Kalanick launches an investigation.
Feb. 22 \u2014 A report by The New York Times claims Uber managers groped, yelled at and threatened employees.
Feb. 23 \u2014 Google spinoff Waymo sues Uber, claiming the ride-hailing company stole its self-driving car technology.
Feb. 24 \u2014 A second former Uber employee blogs anonymously about \u201cchauvinistic, racist and homophobic\u201d attitudes she says she experienced there.
March 3 \u2014 Another former Uber engineer, Keala Lusk, publishes a blog post complaining of sexism at the company.
March 3 \u2014 The New York Times reveals Uber has been using a tool called Greyball to evade law enforcement.
March 19 \u2014 Uber\u2019s president of ride-sharing, Jeff Jones, quits abruptly .
May 26 \u2014 Kalanick\u2019s mother, Bonnie Kalanick, dies in a boating accident in Fresno.
May 30 \u2014 Uber fires Anthony Levandowski, the head of its self-driving car program and the engineer at the heart of the Waymo lawsuit.
June 6 \u2014 Uber fires 20 employees over complaints of sexual harassment, bullying and other unprofessional conduct.
June 7 \u2014 Uber fires exec Eric Alexander after Recode reports he obtained the medical records of a passenger who was raped by her Uber driver.
June 8 \u2014 Recode publishes an embarrassing leaked email from 2013, in which Kalanick weighed in on everything from workers having sex with fellow employees, to puking, while on a business trip to Miami.
June 12 \u2014 Emil Michael, Uber\u2019s senior vice president of business and a close confidant of Kalanick, leaves the company .
June 13 \u2014 Kalanick takes a leave of absence. The same day, Uber reveals some results of the Holder investigation into its company culture.
June 20 \u2014 Kalanick resigns .<\/p>\n

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