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☆ Uber CEO says his time moonlighting as a driver showed him the company didn't pay enough attention to its drivers. It sparked an all-hands called 'Why we suck.'
  + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says driving for the company showed him a "lack of quality" with the product. "We didn't take pride in the driver product because very few of us drove," he said Wednesday. Khosrowshahi made an all-hands presentation titled "Why we suck" based on what he found as a driver. Dara Khosrowshahi had an Undercover Boss-type stint driving for Uber and delivering for Uber Eats for a period last year. "But we didn't take pride in the driver product because very few of us drove."
Persons: Dara Khosrowshahi, Khosrowshahi, Uber, frickin, COVID —, he'd, Steven Levy Organizations: Service, Uber Locations: Wall, Silicon, New York City
☆ This story of when Steve Jobs 'blew up' over a photographer is a classic example of what his biographer called 'Bad Steve'
  + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Haley Tenore | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Steve Jobs apparently "blew up" because he was unhappy with a photographer ahead of iMac's release. Levy writes that Jobs also was also unsure of a different photographer, but eventually was won over. A quarter of a century ago, in 1998, Steve Jobs announced the iMac — a piece of technology that reverberated across the personal computer industry and aided Apple's comeback. Jobs didn't calm down until Clow showed Jobs that the colors were in fact, correct, the biographer wrote in his book. Andy Cunningham, for example, told Insider that Jobs fired her "about five times."
Persons: Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, Levy, Jobs, Apple's, Moshe Brakha, Madonna, Brakha, Walter Isaacson, Apple, Lee Clow, Isaacson, Clow, Andy Cunningham, Cunningham Organizations: Morning, NeXT, PR, Apple, Beastie, Grammy Museum, Jobs, Pixar Locations: Los Angeles
☆ Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap.
  + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
The various bundles are now as annoyingly confusing as cable, and cost basically the same. The Financial Times recently reported that a basket of the top US streaming services will cost $87 this fall, compared with $73 a year ago. Cloud promises are being brokenFinally, there's the cloud, which promised cheaper and more secure computing for companies. In the roughly five years since going public, the company has spent about $3 billion on cloud services from Google and AWS. So, cloud services connected to the internet are great for everyone, except Google?
Persons: we're, Uber, Lyft, Steven Levy, Dara Khosrowshahi, Khosrowshahi, Slack, Andreessen Horowitz Organizations: Morning, Netflix, Disney, Wall Street, Paramount, Showtime, Financial Times, Tacoma International, Microsoft, Google, CNBC Locations: New York City, Seattle
☆ Grimes says her 3-year-old son with Elon Musk no longer plays with toy rockets because he gets upset if they're not 'anatomically correct'
  + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Grimes told Wired that her son with Elon Musk is a "little engineer" who is obsessed with space. X Æ A-Xii, who is three, gets upset when his toy rockets are not "anatomically correct," she said. Grimes said she's stopped giving toy rockets to her 3-year-old son X Æ A-Xii, who she shares with SpaceX founder Elon Musk, because he gets upset if they're not "anatomically correct." Grimes previously tweeted that their son gets frustrated when playing with toy rockets. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images"She's a little engineer too," Grimes told Wired about her daughter.
Persons: Grimes, Elon Musk, she's, they're, Wired's Steven Levy, he's, Claire Boucher, X, —, Musks, Robyn Beck, Musk, Insider's Julia Black, Shivon Zilis Organizations: Wired, SpaceX, Getty, Neuralink Locations: Hawthorne , California
☆ Uber CEO balks after a reporter tells him the cost of his 2.9-mile Uber ride: 'Oh my God. Wow.'
  + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The price of an Uber ride can catch you off guard — even if you're the company's CEO. Uber prices have surged in recent years due to inflation and a pandemic-era driver shortage. Wired editor-at-large Steven Levy took a 2.95-mile Uber ride from downtown New York City to the West Side to meet Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. When asked to estimate the cost of the ride, Khosrowshahi put it at "twenty bucks." When Levy first tried to book an Uber ride for the interview, the price was $20 higher, he said.
Persons: —, Dara Khosrowshahi, Steven Levy, Uber, Khosrowshahi, Levy, it's, Lyft, Uber's Organizations: CNBC, Rakuten Intelligence, UCLA Labor Center Locations: New York City
☆ Elon Musk is the head of 5 companies that need strong leadership. Instead, he's starting Twitter wars.
  + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Marguerite Ward | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Elon Musk has made headlines for his recent tweets, which include posts about guns and Apple. Critics say the Twitter CEO's use of the platform could further endanger the struggling company. There's also been discord at SpaceX, the rocket company Musk operates. In a story for New York Magazine, Kevin Dugan wrote that Musk is unlikely to change his ways anytime soon. "It's now been a week since Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, and one thing that's clear about his reign is that he will never, ever touch grass."
☆ There's a new version of Google Glass, and it's been secretly used by hundreds of factory workers for the last two years
  + stars: | 2017-07-18 | by ( Becky Peterson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
You may have thought Google Glass was dead, but the search giant has quietly resurrected its once-controversial smart glasses. The new Google Glass Enterprise Edition is designed with factory workers in mind. The new Google Glass Enterprise Edition has a removable "Glass Pod" which can be used with safety glasses. Related storiesThe new version of Google Glass has several improvements over the original Explorer Edition, which Google made available to consumers in 2013. Google has worked with developers to make enterprise software for the previous version of the glasses through the Glass at Work program.
Persons: Glass, Steven Levy, Levy, it’s Organizations: GE, Boeing, DHL, Volkswagen, Google, Business, Enterprise Locations: Jackson , Minnesota
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