Dead Cat with Emil Michael
Eric NewcomerJul 26, 2022 at 6:10 pm1h 30min
Eric Newcomer
Welcome, Sally.
Eric Newcomer
Hey everybody, welcome to dead cat. This is Eric newcomer and I'm here with Tom Bhutan. We've got a very exciting guest, Emile Michael, the former Chief Business Officer at Uber and the right hand man to Travis Kalanick is joining us. Mele was Ubers chief deal maker, he was instrumental in the company's battle in China. And Amelia had his hand in almost every part of doober, from 2013 to 2017. helped it raise those billions and billions of dollars.
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00:49Tom Dotan
Certainly, it's like on the back of your baseball card, you know, career stats raise 15 controversial figure, I think we can say portrayed is sort of a shady character on the TV series super pumped, though, as you'll soon hear, and probably have already picked up. Neil is much more chatty extrovert than I think the character in his show. We're going to talk about the Uber files, latest sort of investigative journalism into Travis Kalanick. Era, Uber, spearheaded by the Guardian, and we'll talk a little bit about super pumped. But you know, I think there's so much like, sort of the real world Uber to talk about. Emile is a critic of both how the media has covered Uber over the years, and somewhat, I think, are definitely a critic of the current CEO, Dara khosrowshahi. So we'll talk about that. Tom and I have both spent so much time covering Uber, you know, me earlier in him later. And so this is this is a dream, you know, to talk to you sort of on the record. Thanks. Thanks for joining us here. In a way the podcast was always headed towards this moment.
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01:55Emil Michael
Yeah, okay, controversial, we'll come back to
Eric Newcomer
I just want to know, like, what is like, the heyday of Uber to you? Or like, you know, everybody listening, this podcast knows, Uber and sort of, like, you know, the magic of it at the time, but just like, did you like raising all the money? The China thing? Or like, what was to you? Like, what made like Uber so fun? Or like, what was like the good? What were the good old days of Uber?
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