Another Top Uber Executive Leaves the Company
Jeff Holden, Uber’s chief product officer decided to quit the American cab-hailing company to pursue another opportunity, the company confirmed to Recode. Holden joined Uber’s headquarters in 2014 coming from Groupon.
The timing of his departure seems very inappropriate since he was leading the firm’s flying car initiative, called Elevate, that would look like giant drones taking off vertically. In fact, last week, Uber hosted its second consecutive flying car annual summit, where the project got a very good reception from CEO Dara Khosrowshahi who stated that he would be willing to lose money to see this project take off.
“We’ll take short-term losses in order to bring long-term business,” CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was quoted saying. “If over the short term we ne...