[evanweaver]

This lawsuit has a lot of ambiguity, but Benchmark is one of the more ethical firms in the valley. The idea that they would secretly and maliciously undermine their own portfolio company, then file this very public lawsuit about the same events, is crazy.

The suit claims the board did not know about the bad acts. If the board was the source of the press about the bad acts, surely the primary claim would instantly be disproven in discovery. Perhaps a better way for Uber to have avoided the many, many PR crises would have be to not have done the bad acts in the first place.