Uber was already off to a bad start in 2017.
But now, just halfway through the year, the $69 billion ride-hailing company has lost its CEO and numerous other executives and fired over 20 other employees as it's been rocked by scandal after scandal.
Uber's bad luck began in January when the #DeleteUber movement led to a flurry of account deletions by customers upset about the company's ties to President Trump. It lost more than 200,000 customers in just one weekend.
That was just a prelude to Uber's no-good, very bad year. Since February, when a blog post by a former engineer sparked a major investigation into the company's business and culture, Uber has been pummeled by a seemingly never-ending barrage of bad news.
The series of crises ultimately led to Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's resignation on Tuesday amid an investor revolt. Here's everything that's happened to Uber since things took a turn for the worse with the engineer's post:
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February 19: The beginning
Susan Fowler starts it all with her reflections on "one very, very strange year at Uber." Fowler, a former engineer at the company, alleges in a blog post that she was sexually harassed at Uber and experienced gender bias during her time at the company. She claims a manager propositioned her and asked for sex, but she says her complaints to Uber's human resources department were dismissed because the manager was a high performer. Uber continued to ignore her complaints, and her manager threatened to fire her for reporting things to HR, she says.
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick immediately pledges to look into Fowler's allegations. Kalanick responds within hours of the post's publication to say that what Fowler said she experienced was "abhorrent & against everything we believe in." Uber hires Eric Holder, a former US attorney general, to lead an independent investigation into its workplace culture.
A few days later, the New York Times publishes a bombshell report that suggests Fowler's claims were not isolated. Employees did cocaine during a company retreat and a manager had to be fired after groping multiple women, according to the report. Former employees tell the Times they notified Uber's leadership, including Kalanick and CTO Thuan Pham, about workplace harassment.
February 23: Investor betrayal and accusations of stolen technology
Uber investors Freada and Mitch Kapor blast the company for failing to change. In an open letter to Uber's investors and board, the Kapors say Uber has ignored their years long behind-the-scenes efforts to positively influence the company's culture. "We are speaking up now because we are disappointed and frustrated; we feel we have hit a dead end in trying to influence the company quietly from the inside," the Kapors write.
Waymo, the spinout of Google, another Uber investor, sues the ride-hailing company for intellectual property theft. In an explosive lawsuit, Waymo, formerly Google's self-driving-car division, accuses Uber of using stolen technology to advance its own autonomous-car development. Filed in the US District Court in San Francisco, the suit claims a team of ex-Google engineers stole Waymo's design for the laser sensor that allows self-driving cars to map the environment around them.
February 27: A high-profile exec is out under a cloud of controversy
Uber's senior vice president of engineering steps down amid allegations of sexual-harassment at his previous job. Recode's Kara Swisher notifies the company of the allegations against the engineer, Amit Singhal, while reporting a story. When Uber CEO Travis Kalanick find out about them, he asks Singhal to resign. Singhal, who passed Uber's standard background checks before joining the company, strenuously denies the allegations.
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