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?
It started as one woman’s complaint of sexual harassment at Uber. Four months later, the company’s CEO, Travis Kalanick, is forced to resign.
Here’s a look at how events unfolded:
Feb. 19 — Former Uber engineer Susan Fowler Rigetti publishes a blog post detailing alleged sexual harassment, which goes viral. Kalanick launches an investigation.
Feb. 22 — A report by The New York Times claims Uber managers groped, yelled at and threatened employees.
Feb. 23 — Google spinoff Waymo sues Uber, claiming the ride-hailing company stole its self-driving car technology.
Feb. 24 — A second former Uber employee blogs anonymously about “chauvinistic, racist and homophobic” attitudes she says she experienced there.
March 3 — Another former Uber engineer, Keala Lusk, publishes a blog post complaining of sexism at the company.
March 3 — The New York Times reveals Uber has been using a tool called Greyball to evade law enforcement.
March 19 — Uber’s president of ride-sharing, Jeff Jones, quits abruptly .
May 26 — Kalanick’s mother, Bonnie Kalanick, dies in a boating accident in Fresno.
May 30 — Uber fires Anthony Levandowski, the head of its self-driving car program and the engineer at the heart of the Waymo lawsuit.
June 6 — Uber fires 20 employees over complaints of sexual harassment, bullying and other unprofessional conduct.
June 7 — 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 — 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 — Emil Michael, Uber’s senior vice president of business and a close confidant of Kalanick, leaves the company .
June 13 — Kalanick takes a leave of absence. The same day, Uber reveals some results of the Holder investigation into its company culture.
June 20 — Kalanick resigns .
