With Waymo Settlement, Uber C.E.O. Makes His Mark<br />SAN FRANCISCO — For weeks, Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber’s chief executive,<br />and some of his lieutenants had worked behind the scenes to repair the ride-hailing company’s fractious relationship with Waymo, the self-driving business spun out of Google.<br />is to set the course for the future of the company: innovating<br />and growing responsibly, as well as acknowledging and correcting mistakes of the past,” Mr. Khosrowshahi said in a company blog post.<br />Mr. Khosrowshahi’s style is markedly different from that of Mr. Kalanick, who took a no-holds-barred approach to the business world.<br />In December, the ride-hailing company said Barney Harford, a former chief executive<br />of the travel site Orbitz, would become its chief operating officer.<br />Mr. Kalanick also testified that he became friendly with Anthony Levandowski, a former top self-driving researcher at Google.
