[rmason]

Firing founders was tried in the nineties and it always resulted in failure. Guess the Uber VC's need to painfully relearn that lesson?

If Travis had been smart enough to create two classes of stock like Mark Zuckerberg and the Google founders he'd be calling the shots, instead he's out of a job.

[kevan]

Travis does control the majority of voting shares, no one can force him to step down....on paper. The real world is a bit more complicated than that.

[danso]

Travis was calling the shots. That's why he's getting blamed for the alleged toxic culture (which includes not just sexism, but mistreatment/underpayment of drivers, among other things).

[btmiller]

You're going to face a lot of harsh criticism if all you can focus on here is VC and profit.

[ruleabidinguser]

His issues are real but small in comparison

[maaaats]

Lots of other comments here suggest he had majority and could have stayed.

[acjohnson55]

Always? Really?

And how many promising companies failed with their founders at the helm?

[s73ver]

Or, maybe if he had treated Uber as a place of business, instead of a frathouse, and Susan Fowler's blog post was never needed to be written.

[amyjess]

Google only became a successful business because of Eric Schmidt. If Larry & Sergey never stepped aside, Google would have died long ago.