Kalanick must have known this was on its way when he backed out of the Code Conference a few days ago. Even with just the events of the last few months, he was already going to be on the hot seat facing Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg.
And you know neither of them were going to pull any punches.
John Gruber quipped that cancelling that interview was probably the smartest thing Kalanick has done in a while. I see that point, but I slightly disagree. If Uber could come up with some kind of decent response to all of the recent shitstorms including this one, that would be a great platform to spread the message.
Cancelling reads to me like they are afraid to answer tough questions because they have no good answers.
On the other hand, I wouldn't want to tangle with Kara Swisher in particular. She's tenacious; she doesn't care who you are or how big your company is; she will tear your intestines out your butthole and feed them to you while the entire technology world watches. I love her. She and Walt are shining examples of a free press holding the feet of the powerful to the fire when needed.
The rest of the media could learn a thing or two from them.
But back to the point, yeah, I bet he's glad he doesn't have to respond to this as well.
And you know neither of them were going to pull any punches.
John Gruber quipped that cancelling that interview was probably the smartest thing Kalanick has done in a while. I see that point, but I slightly disagree. If Uber could come up with some kind of decent response to all of the recent shitstorms including this one, that would be a great platform to spread the message.
Cancelling reads to me like they are afraid to answer tough questions because they have no good answers.
On the other hand, I wouldn't want to tangle with Kara Swisher in particular. She's tenacious; she doesn't care who you are or how big your company is; she will tear your intestines out your butthole and feed them to you while the entire technology world watches. I love her. She and Walt are shining examples of a free press holding the feet of the powerful to the fire when needed.
The rest of the media could learn a thing or two from them.
But back to the point, yeah, I bet he's glad he doesn't have to respond to this as well.