{"id":1957,"date":"2017-08-11T01:34:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T23:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/11\/battle-for-power-at-uber-as-investor-sues-ex-ceo-travis-kalanick-alleging-fraud\/"},"modified":"2017-08-11T01:34:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T23:34:40","slug":"battle-for-power-at-uber-as-investor-sues-ex-ceo-travis-kalanick-alleging-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=1957","title":{"rendered":"Battle for power at Uber as investor sues ex-CEO Travis Kalanick alleging fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benchmark Capital accuses Travis Kalanick of fraud to \u2018increase his power over Uber for his own selfish ends\u2019 as former CEO calls the case \u2018riddles with lies\u2019 Travis Kalanick is being sued by one of Uber\u2019s largest investors, Benchmark Capital, which accuses the former chief executive of engaging in fraud in order to \u201cincrease his power over Uber for his own selfish ends\u201d.The Benchmark complaint exposes an ugly battle for power at the top of the nearly $70bn startup, which has been buffeted from crisis to crisis all year and is still searching for a replacement for Kalanick. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/aug\/10\/uber-travis-kalanick-sued-fraud-benchmark-capital\" target=\"_blank\">Battle for power at Uber as investor sues ex-CEO Travis Kalanick alleging fraud<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benchmark Capital accuses Travis Kalanick of fraud to \u2018increase his power over Uber for his own selfish ends\u2019 as former CEO calls the case \u2018riddles with lies\u2019 Travis Kalanick is being sued by one of Uber\u2019s largest investors, Benchmark Capital, which accuses the former chief executive of engaging in fraud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}