[alphonsegaston]

Uber's valuation is a collaborative performance that only stops being fiction if everyone plays along until they achieve a self-driving monopoly. Kalanick is tearing up pages of that script faster than new ones can be written and a whole lot of the performers are jumping ship.

If he wants to be the king of an ash pile, so be it. But it's not gonna be an ash pile worth $60B.

[goseeastarwar]

Uber isn't going anywhere. Investors may take a short-term hit riding this wave of bad PR, but there's far too much machinery that will continue to push Kalanick's agenda forward.

This thread is chock full of wishful thinking, but the fact of the matter is the vast majority of Uber's users just want to get somewhere and don't care how the company is being run.