Uber lose the pieces. The president of the company Jeff Jones he leaves the company after only six months in office. According to a note sent to the Recode website, his values and his approach to leadership are "incompatible" with those of the company, which is facing the umpteenth grain of a complicated period.
Uber, in fact, is facing a lawsuit of Google for alleged theft of intellectual property for self-driving cars and a scandal over the app to circumvent the authorities' controls, as well as allegations about a particularly lax policy on the front of sexual abuse in the workplace. In addition, the company also remains in the eye of the storm in Italy, where taxi drivers are back in protest on Thursday, once again to ask for stringent rules on rentals with driver and Uber.
A series of controversies that would have, therefore, prompted Jones to leave his post, also following the decision of Ad Travis Kalanick to want to hire a new chief operating officer to help guide Uber at this juncture. In any case, Jones is not the only senior figure to have left the company in recent times: in fact, in early March, in fact, also resigned Ed Baker, vice president responsible for product and growth, and Charlie Miller, one of the principal researchers safety.
