UBER as of today, it was left without the president and co-founder Travis Kalanick, who finally agreed to resign from the management position he held at the company. Kalanick was pressured for several months by the UBER shareholders to hand over the baton to a more competent man to lead the company, and this happened in the end.
Kalanick was on leave after his mother died last week, so UBER was run by the co-founder's deputy, but now a new president will be appointed. Although he is leaving the position of president of the UBER company, Kalanick will still remain on the board of directors and will have a say in the future evolution of the company.
UBER has been in the middle of a multitude of scandals lately, and this has affected the price of the company's shares on the American stock market, but also the reputation of the managers. Of course, Travis Kalanick was seen as the main culprit of these UBER problems, one of the managers being in the middle of one of the scandals, he leaving the company after the problems generated.
UBER remains without a president, new changes are coming
The departure of Travis Kalanick has already brought a first change to UBER, the company announcing yesterday that it will allow offering tips to drivers who transport customers. For now, only a few cities in the US will have this feature available to UBER customers and drivers, but by the end of July the changes will be extended to all customers in the US.
Separately, those from UBER also announce changes for the rates applied to the rides made by customers, all to bring more money into the drivers' pockets. All these changes made by UBER are thought to please the drivers who complain almost everywhere about the conditions in which they are forced to collaborate with those from UBER at the moment.
"I love Uber more than anything in the world and at this difficult moment in my personal life I have accepted the investors request to step aside so that Uber can go back to building rather than be distracted with another fight. "
Considering that Kalanick will no longer be in charge, it is expected that other changes will be imposed for UBER in the following period. How much they will change the experience of using UBER and how much the rates will increase remains to be seen, but it is clear that users must expect major news for the way they will be transported and for the money they will pay.
