<story><title>The Fall of Travis Kalanick</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/the-fall-of-travis-kalanick-was-a-lot-weirder-and-darker-than-you-thought</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gwern</author><text>&amp;gt; After Uber’s lawyers insisted the company wouldn’t pay Kamel to clean up Kalanick’s personal scandal, Kalanick agreed to pay Kamel $200,000 out of his own pocket, according to a person familiar with the matter. “The meeting ended on a positive note, and Travis appreciated Mr. Kamel’s openness and forgiveness,” a spokesperson for Kalanick said in a statement.&lt;p&gt;For $200k for being lectured for a minute, I&amp;#x27;d have a lot of openness (of my wallet) and forgiveness too.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Fall of Travis Kalanick</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/the-fall-of-travis-kalanick-was-a-lot-weirder-and-darker-than-you-thought</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>derwiki</author><text>&amp;gt; “Until 2017, you could go into Uber on any given day and half the T-shirts were Uber T-shirts,” says one executive. “They disappeared overnight. People didn’t want to wear Uber stuff.”</text></comment>