Someone I know was just commenting that from convos w/ people in other companies, it seems many startups have benefitted from not being under the limelight, and thus had the chance to quietly clean up their own messes while Uber was taking all the heat from the media.
Does anyone else find this whole thing more than a bit hypocritical?
Lyft is always telling you they are the better/ethical/woke ridesharing option - now their employees are reporting a culture of abusing customer privacy. I wish they had taken a look at their own practices before running million dollar ad campaigns full of celebrities celebrating their ‘wokeness’.
Much of the criticism against Uber concern top-level decisions, such as the creation and use of "Greyball", or actions and decisions from Kalanick himself and other top executives. Lyft maybe deserves blame for not building better and more automated audit systems and policies after knowing that these lookups could be abused.
