The same year, Mr. Kalanick discussed how Uber had boosted his desirability with women in an interview with GQ, calling the company “boob-er.”<br />And just days after a former employee published a blog post in February detailing sexual harassment at Uber, Mr. Kalanick<br />attended Vanity Fair’s Academy Awards party in Hollywood, stunning some colleagues with his perceived insensitivity.<br />According to interviews with more than 50 current and former Uber employees, investors and others with whom the executive had personal relationships, Mr. Kalanick, 40, is driven to the point<br />that he must win at whatever he puts his mind to and at whatever cost — a trait that has now plunged Uber into its most sustained set of crises since its founding in 2009.<br />In 2015 when New York’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, tried capping the number of Uber cars, Uber added a “de Blasio”<br />tab in its app to show lengthy waiting times for rides if legislation against Uber was allowed to go forward.
