[woman] Previously on Super Pumped.
Boom! You just got Greyballed, motherfucker!
I-Is this legal?
Are you an asshole?
[Emil] We wouldn't even be here tonight
if it wasn't for Olivia Lungociu.
What if we gave her a taste of her own medicine?
Spend a million dollars to dig into her?
How could you, Emil?
[Gurley] I'm the one who put you in here.
I'm the one who can take you out too.
-What's going on? -[Travis] I yelled.
[Bonnie] Travis, you can't do that.
Yeah, I know. I know.
I don't know what the fuck's wrong with me.
I don't know why I keep doing that.
Sometimes to get what you want,
you got to give what you want.
[Travis] There's no driver.
We doing this?
We sure as fuck are, man.
[Gurley] Google rang me up.
It's not good. They're suing over Levandowski.
You need to publish this video.
The world needs to see it.
urgent music plays
opening theme music plays
[Holder] Hello, everyone.
I understand Mr. Kalanick is unable to join,
but we know everything,
and we have it all in here.
So let's begin.
"Force of Nature" by Pearl Jam plays
Understand she's a force of nature
Contraband hiding deep inside her soul
Exercising her will to lose control
These are just and reasonable demands
of righteous people.
[speech continues indistinctly]
[Tarantino] A man considers himself small
right up until the moment he bigs up.
Atlas-style, Greek Titan, bodybuilder.
Both motherfuckers apply.
Inspiration from the back of a comic book
is not far off in this particular case.
Can you believe this asshole?
The case of Dan O'Sullivan.
Chicago nobody versus the world.
[Trump] ...so much unrealized potential.
This American carnage stops right here
and stops right now.
[cheers and applause on TV]
Maybe we should turn this off, you know,
keep politics out of the office, like they said?
CEO is on Trump's economic council.
He brought politics to the office
and dumped them like a colostomy bag
right in the middle of the office.
You're obsessed, man. And a little gross.
Pretty sure we're all obsessed, or should be.
You didn't get enough blowback from your company-wide email
about TK signing on with Trump?
I mean, that had to get HR all up in your face.
My face is fine.
You told me you got called into the office--
I said it went fine. Travis is sucking the ass
of a fake fucking billionaire.
Worry about what's ending up on his face,
and I'll worry about him firing me.
[crowd shouting angrily]
[bird tweets]
[Whetstone] We've got to turn this sentiment around.
[door opens noisily]
[Travis] No. I don't believe that.
I don't see it. That's not fair.
It's also wrong, by the way. But mostly it's unfair.
You agreed to let us do our thing and then report back.
-You agreed. -I changed my mind.
-And I'm glad I did. -We're not doing this
with you here, that's why it's an offsite.
Uber is not paying you to collect all of my bad press
like some pissed-off girlfriend scrolling through our texts
trying to find the first time I was mean to her.
Actually, that's exactly what they want, because this...
well, this says that people don't like you.
It says that you are one dumb choice away
from being a punchline buried in the third graph
of a late-night monologue.
And who is "they" in your construct?
I'm Uber, 'kay?
And I don't see this.
What I see is a mediocre comms team that's...
Oh, no.
What are you doing?
What is it?
[Travis, on video] My girls.
-[girls giggling] -[music playing]
[all laughing]
Do it outside. Don't do it in my house.
Yeah, this is it, man. Heck, yeah.
Yeah, all right. Perfect.
-[woman 1] Thank you. -Oh, this is really fucked up.
I don't know if you remember me, you know, old faces, new faces.
2010.
Thanks for all the work you do.
You dropped the prices.
I... I didn't drop the prices on Black.
You can have the prices you want,
but you choose to give everybody a ride.
Okay, no, here's the thing about that.
We can do Lux in San Francisco.
I got guys working on Lux right now.
That's gonna be 50 to 70% more expensive.
But people are not trusting you anymore.
You think people want to buy black cars anymore?
Nobody wants to buy a black car.
I lost $97,000 because of you.
Yes. I'm bankrupt because of you.
Yes, come on. Yes. You keep changing every day.
-Hold on. Hold on a second. -You keep changing every day.
What have I changed about Black?
-You changed the whole business. -What?
-You dropped the prices. -That-- not on Black.
-No, that's bullshit. That-- -Yes. Yes, you did.
No, I didn't.
[Austin] We are thrilled to have you exclusive to Uber.
-Twenty dollars a mile? -Yeah.
And the price for the rider stays the same.
We just appreciate your loyalty.
-That is bullshit. Bullshit! -We're talking dollars per mile.
-What is the mile now, $2.75? -You know what?
Some people just can't take responsibility
-for their own shit. -I take responsibility.
And they have to blame everything in their life
-on somebody else. -You sent an email.
-Come on, you sent an email-- -Good luck.
[Kamel] Good luck to you, but I know
-you're not gonna go far. -Jesus, turn it off.
This is really bad. That's really bad.
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
Fuck! What is wrong with me?
[sobs and inhales sharply]
[screams]
[Travis sighs]
[inhales sharply and exhales]
[cell phone buzzes]
It's being picked up by Olivia. It's on WSJ's site.
Is anyone calling us for comment?
No.
-That's not good. -Mnh-mnh.
Uh, Arianna? Hi, it's, uh, Travis.
Can you call me back?
Um, look, actually, can you just come get me?
I'm...
Never mind just, uh, call. Thanks.
[Bonnie] This is Bonnie Kalanick.
Please leave me a message,
and I'll get back to you.
Hi, Mom.
Um, can you just call me back?
I, um... I'm not gonna...
[clears throat] ...be able to make it up to the house.
Things are complicated here.
But if anyone calls you about a video,
just hang up and call Penny or Kelsey, okay?
And don't watch it.
I'm fixing this.
I am.
Some people just don't want to take responsibility.
I take responsibility. You sent an email.
They gotta blame everything in their life on somebody else.
[cell phone vibrates]
-Bill. -We have a problem.
Yes. We do.
I just spoke with Travis.
He needs our support with that bogus video
of him and the driver.
Can I count on the board?
Well, I appreciate you reaching out
to get ourselves aligned on this.
This is a-a bad situation
on top of a lot of bad choices, Arianna.
He's surrounded by the wrong people.
Well, I'd love to,
but we make the wrong move in response,
it's gonna look like panic.
It was lovely to chat with you.
I'm confident we will find a solution.
[soft chuckle] No, ma'am.
It's always my pleasure speaking with you on the phone.
[Emil] This video is data.
And you're the data guy, right?
So tell me where the lie is.
Now tell me, what part of what you said isn't true?
-[sighs] -You can't, can you?
-No. -No.
And what's our valuation right now?
Sixty-nine billion.
What was it when you started with Ryan and Garrett?
-One point six million. -It was.
That's one point six.
That's a dick lint number.
-[laughs] -And who did that?
Which guy on the screen?
That guy wouldn't have a job if it weren't for that guy.
Okay?
You didn't tell him to make the choices he made.
You gave him opportunity.
The most American thing ever.
Fly the flag, salute the fireworks,
baseball and hot dogs.
That's you.
Apple fucking pie, right?
And we don't outsource the work either.
I'm not Tim fucking Cook, sending jobs off to China.
And we're a global brand.
But we create jobs locally, globally.
Damn fucking straight.
[doorknob turns, keys rattle]
[lips sputter]
Fuck what people say about you.
The only things that count are revenue and riders.
We got to get Levandowski to get us those driverless cars sooner.
What'd he say it's gonna be?
-Two years. -Yeah, no.
You gotta tell him 18 months. That is what we need.
Driverless cars in 18 months. It's cheaper. It's faster.
It's safer.
Cutting edge, man.
No more of these wars with fucking drivers.
Hey, we're gonna get you through this.
And then you're gonna keep changing the world.
Yeah. Hell, yeah.
[keys clatter]
What?
"Are you okay?"
"I'm so sorry you're going through this."
"He's an asshole." I've got a lot of those.
A lot of "Dump his ass," too.
People asking me if it was taken before we met,
which of course, they know it wasn't.
They just, I don't know, want me to make them feel like
they can comfort the sad girl
who was stupid enough to believe you.
People are mad at me 'cause of the video,
and they're taking it out on you. That's all.
No, they saw you in the back of a car
with a couple of miniskirts and heels,
and they think that you're cheating on me.
But you know it's not that. It's just I need to be seen--
That's the problem.
You think that you need to be seen.
[sighs]
You know, my uncle used to watch these infomercials,
this real estate scam course.
"How to Make Money Now." This guy named Tom Vu.
He always had six bikini models either side of him on a yacht.
Uncle lost a lot of money to that scammer.
And I laughed at him.
And now I am living with Tom Vu, and everybody else...
-What-- -...is laughing at me.
What do you want me to say?
I want you to give me
some sort of reason to stay.
'Cause being with you
is making me feel ugly and awful.
Sorry, just...
[sighs] Fuck.
Forget it.
I'm moving out in the morning.
You're gonna move out on me
in the middle of the worst crisis of my career
because of a video with me and some fully clothed women?
[laughs]
I'm sorry, it's just sometimes it's so clear that you're 24.
Gabi dumped me.
What's the plan for Uber?
I want to bring someone in to help with culture.
You just said "culture" without making a face.
Yeah, I made it on the inside.
You want me to do it?
You said you would before.
You know me.
You know how to fix things without making them worse.
[sighs]
I just need a list of shit to do,
and then I'll do that shit,
and then people can stop freaking out.
Maybe start with not yelling at your drivers,
especially the ones with dashcams.
That's what you got for me?
If I come, it has to be real.
You pay me as a consultant, and you give me complete access.
You take the changes seriously.
Nah, it's a dumb idea.
You investigating me? Be too weird.
You like me too much.
[soft chuckle]
Yeah, you're probably right.
I'll stick with the biotech cancer drug thing.
Not a good idea for the CEO to take time off
to investigate another company.
You good, though?
I want you to be good.
I'd be better if you made me whole.
Why don't you just give me a fucking number,
so we can stop having this conversation?
A hundred million.
There.
Now you have a number.
Okay.
Let me see what I can figure out.
Nothing to figure.
We both know what I contributed is worth way more than that.
Meanwhile, hire someone.
Do something to take back control of the narrative
before it eats you.
We just need to pull Uber over to pit row,
get it fixed up, back out there fast.
We do this internally. We do it this weekend.
Any attempt to self-diagnose will be met with ridicule.
By everybody, myself included.
We need someone trustworthy to come in.
You're on board?
Only if Travis agrees to listen to every recommendation.
[soft chuckle]
Wait, hold on.
Is this investigation theater or for real?
Amateurs love the profits, hate the process.
We need a new story.
We need you guys to get it out there
that we're taking this seriously,
and we're making changes.
[Hendricks] I feel like I'm going crazy.
Are we taking this seriously and making changes?
Yes. Legit. We need somebody with gravitas.
That is how strongly I believe in this, okay?
Now when you were at the White House,
who scared the shit out of you that wasn't named Obama?
Eric Holder.
There you go. Perfect.
-Get him. He's a lawyer, right? -No, no, no.
That guy's a laser-focused wrecking ball, Travis.
Exactly. People know his name. He inspires fear.
Are you telling me that you can't sell
"Uber investigated by Eric Holder" to the press?
We can sell it.
It's just once you put a force like this in motion,
it might not go the way you think.
Oh, not worried about that.
I can work him.
I can! He should be here and hired already.
Come on. Let's fix this.
percussive beat
I'm establishing new vetting measures
to keep radical Islamic terrorists
out of the United States of America.
We don't want them here.
urgent music
All the cabs are refusing to work and our app shows
at minimum 60-minute wait
for JFK Terminals three through six.
Surge pricing is at four times the normal cost.
At some point people will just take--
[laughs] What? The train?
Have you ever taken a train to JFK?
No. Nobody has.
How many rides you think we're losing to this?
[sighs] Turn off surge pricing.
Push "notify everyone in the area."
We stand with our passengers.
[Tarantino] Our man, Dan.
This particular Chicago-based punk
is about to scream "I want to be anarchy"
right into Uber's face.
[phone notification whistles]
[sighs]
It's one man and a motherfucking microphone.
And in this case,
that microphone is Twitter.
[keyboard clacking]
-Guy hits send. -[bird tweets]
Guy thinks nothing'll happen.
What good can 140 characters do?
But sometimes...
sometimes this shit hits like nitrate.
Just the right thing at just the right time.
Who the hell told them to stop surge pricing in New York?
Okay, you seem a little bit--
I seem what? Furious?
Because in the face of the Muslim ban,
which affects taxi drivers, and, yes, our drivers,
someone in New York ops decided to play strikebreaker?
No one broke any strikes. That's not what happened.
Did you fucking authorize dropping the surge pricing?
Maybe you or someone else
thought it might seem magnanimous
not to charge people more.
But if you thought about it for one fucking second--
I didn't authorize shit.
I didn't send the tweet.
Okay, then fire whoever the fuck did.
So we should be gouging people?
We should be profiting off this protest?
To avoid being racist, yeah.
Wasn't this just Uber offering people a way to support
the striking taxi drivers
so they wouldn't have to cross a protest line?
Don't spin me.
The company took the opportunity to book rides.
You don't fucking think, Travis.
I'm gonna treat you like a driver right now.
Like one of those drivers that I signed
by telling them how to go about making their lives better.
And I'm gonna tell you what's fucking best for you
and what's best for the United fucking States of America.
So now you're speaking for the whole country.
Exactly. And you need to actually take responsibility.
More than running my company?
Quit the president's economic council.
Distance yourself.
The majority of our drivers are immigrants,
not just in this country, which you know.
You just went viral for berating one.
Okay, look, you don't like the president.
Guess what? Neither do I.
The difference is, you're gonna complain about it.
I'm gonna walk into the White House
and have influence, and protect what we built.
What you're doing is dicking around.
You need to start listening to the people here.
You know, the people that helped you build this company.
Because the people here, they hate him.
And they are starting to really hate you.
vocalist sings indistinctly
[Tarantino] Eric Himpton Holder, Jr.
First Black attorney general of these United States,
shoulder to shoulder with B. Hussein Obama
through the best and worst of it.
But if you think he's riding shotgun
for one side or the other, no, sir.
This gentleman was first made a federal judge
by none other than handsome Ron Reagan himself.
And, no, I ain't gonna swear in front of him
because I have respect.
Maybe even a little fear.
And so should you.
[liquid pouring]
Mr. Holder.
Mr. Kalanick.
How's San Francisco treating you?
You know what?
We have got to get you in to Arianna and Robin.
Actually, you let me know what you want to eat.
I'll make the calls.
Travis, we will talk at the end of this process.
Before that, if you see me,
say hi, and that's it.
I don't work for you.
You are not my client.
Uber is my client.
That's one and the same.
See, now, that's why we shouldn't be talking,
because you might say something like that,
and then I might have to write it down.
For this to work, you can have no control over what I find out.
You let me know about those reservations.
[reporter] President Trump's travel
and immigration crackdown
on people from the seven Muslim-majority countries
has caused chaos and confusion...
Fuck this fucking company and its absolute bullshittery.
Fuck all of you.
[keys clacking]
[text tone]
We've got trouble.
Right here in River City.
My mom likes Music Man. Sorry, go.
The Levandowski mess.
We tried to fend off the lawsuit over Levandowski and his tech.
Google is not interested in talking.
Talking meaning settlement.
They want to go to court.
We need to cut Levandowski loose.
Half the shit that Google uses
is stuff they're accused of stealing.
They do it all the time. Just keep doing it
'cause they're Google, they're a monolith.
But... isn't Uber the fucking monolith now?
Why should I have to cower?
Why is Larry Page up my ass about this thing?
[chuckles] You know, another time, another situation,
maybe we ask that question,
but right now you're grappling with bad press.
Page knows it, and he's taking advantage.
So it's my fault?
Mm. Fault is for after.
Right now we need action.
Specifically,
we need you to fire Levandowski,
make Page think he's gotten to us.
Maybe he calms down.
You do that, you throw away the future of the company.
Well, if it makes you feel any better,
Levandowski's technology's been burned.
Nobody gets it, including and especially Lyft.
Does that make you feel any better?
No, none of this is good.
It's what you call triage, Travis.
You're the guy dying of liver failure.
I'm the guy trying to help you kick the bottle.
Okay, if the smell of death is in the air,
it's not wafting off of me.
I'm alive and doing the thing.
I brought in Holder. I'm solving this.
Let's give him a week to finish his work, right?
I'd really like Holder's report to say that you saw a problem
and you fixed it, not that you saw a problem
and you waited for it to go away.
It's a big difference.
I shouldn't have said yes to this.
The only thing standing between us
and total domination is the fucking drivers, man.
We replace them, we own transportation.
Keep Levandowski,
we all get sucked into this lawsuit like a black hole.
Yeah.
End of game.
[sighs]
I can't.
What?
I care too much.
You know me, man. I'll get out there,
I'll convince him we should keep fighting.
You do it.
Yeah.
[Bonnie, over answering machine] This is Bonnie Kalanick.
Please leave me a message and I'll get back to you.
Thanks.
[brakes squeal]
[computer] Self-driving mode deactivated.
-Hey, man... -Test vehicle in standby.
TK couldn't nut up, huh?
He hates this.
He really does.
Yeah.
Clearly.
You didn't even cover your tracks.
When you take a dump
on your ex-girlfriend's lawn,
you want her to know it was you, not the Great Dane next door.
Okay, well, I don't do that.
We all do that.
In one way or another. [scoffs]
So if you're looking for me to throw myself
on the mercy of the whatever the hell you are, no, thanks.
You're gonna turn the money spout off
and lose your only shot at driverless cars.
We are.
How the hell can I steal something I created?
That's lawyer bullshit.
That's not laws of nature.
These fucking people,
holding me and Travis to this standard,
like we're average,
like those standards apply.
People like me and TK,
we have the ability to make the world better,
and applying conventional morality
to the world's most brilliant minds is insanity.
They don't deserve you.
But we can't keep you.
Tell Travis to get out of the car next time.
-It's done? -[sighs] Yeah.
He gets it.
Great, so now we just have to deal
with fucking drivers for the next decade
till someone else figures out the final solution.
Just kidding.
Dude, I'm kidding. Come on, obviously, I'm--
I'm hurting over here.
Jesus.
Can we go?
Hey, guys, I, uh,
I just got a call from someone at Bloomberg.
He is sourcing a story about a karaoke bar in South Korea.
What do I need to get in front of?
Is this the Asia trip?
We come together
So let's touch the sky
Let's touch the sky
-[laughing] - Let it take us higher...
I am a golden god!
Of what, exactly?
That's it, you're buying the drinks.
You're not buying the drinks. You're using the corporate card.
So I'm buying the drinks like always, right?
Hey, I want to sing Madonna.
You get to sing whatever you want to sing.
We get this whole place to ourselves.
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
There's a story about me singing "Drunk in Love"?
[laughs] You did sing the Beyoncé part.
-[Emil] Yeah. -So we're fine.
Unless you want to hear me sing the harmonies.
Is this a thing?
'Cause this can't be another story that I get blamed for.
You were with me.
It's not remotely a thing.
[cell phone pings]
[cell phone rings]
[sighs]
Did he ask you to call me?
No, no.
Right, of course.
You okay?
Did you find a place?
Yeah, I think so.
It's, um, a bit far from things,
but it's got a small yard, so that's--
Great. Great.
Do you, uh, remember that karaoke night in Seoul?
[Gabi] Hey, I want to sing Madonna.
You can sing anything you want.
We got this whole place to ourselves.
[man] Okay, everyone. It's time.
Pick a number, any number.
But not 14. She's mine.
[dance music playing on speakers]
What? They, like, help you sing?
Well, more like they, uh, make you sing.
-[laughs] -Seven.
'Cause she looks like you.
Hey.
Closest you're gonna get.
Ten, thirteen, twelve, eleven.
These are some of my lucky numbers.
Uh, yeah. You, you, you and you.
Sure four's probably enough.
Like the hoop earrings. Glasses are nice.
Babe, you ready?
[dance music continues]
I'm gonna hang back at the bar with Sonya and have a drink.
What about it?
Yeah, I only wanted to warn you, you know, so you're prepared.
And if a reporter or anyone comes around,
it'll be really cool if you just let them know nothing happened.
I don't think I can do that.
Yeah, I get that you and, you know,
Trav are taking a break.
But you don't want to hurt him, and I know how fragile you are.
I just want to be left out of all of this, okay?
Can you just not mention me?
It's-- it's not up to me. Come on, let's figure out...
-Please, okay, I-- -...now, so it's clear.
I'm gonna hang up, all right? Just, don't--
No, Gab. Gab.
[cell phone rings]
[Quentin] That's not what I would have done.
Yeah, that's 'cause you don't do anything.
-You're not an action guy-- -Guys.
The moron has rewritten the user deletion logic
to batch delete users.
I had to, since there are so many happening at the same time.
He doesn't understand, and so I'm here trying to work.
Okay. Tell me why you 911'ed.
Hashtag "delete Uber." After your bullshit move at JFK.
Yo!
Users are trying to delete their whole accounts.
-We usually get a dozen a week-- -Not even.
-But we're at-- -A hundred thousand.
Fuck, you guys. Fuck.
And that's not counting the full app deleters,
which we won't know until Apple releases metadata.
We're trending on Twitter.
[Quentin] Steadily going up,
even after Austin restored surge pricing.
We need a full engineering team in here to handle the overload.
Uh, no.
We are frictionless,
but not if you want to delete us
just because of a goddamn hashtag.
Okay, but that friction will crash the app.
The platform. All of it. Nobody will be able to ride.
Fuck, you guys.
Fuck!
All right, do it. Get whoever you need.
[Donald] What do you think?
A little midnight spin?
Oh.
[soft chuckle]
All that noise, this late at night?
We'll get stink eye from everyone on the lake.
Oh, no.
[Bonnie laughs]
[cell phone vibrates]
You ready to talk to him?
He's not gonna like what I have to say.
Hi.
Hey, Mom, you're awake.
That's, uh, good.
I-- listen, I--
Things aren't going so well...
-[laughs] ...and, um-- -Hey, Trav.
The reason I didn't pick up before
is because this is the whining time,
and I'm gonna talk to you in the fixing time.
No, I'm fixing it right now.
So you keep saying.
I am.
I just wanted to talk it through a lit--
The laundry list of complaints
can go on my voicemail.
I know what it sounds like
when you actually take responsibility.
And, um, I'll be here when that happens.
You...
[phone signal beeps]
He mad?
[sighs] He's fine.
Yeah, he's, uh--
He's working through his stuff.
[Emil, over recording] Listen, Gabs,
just call me, okay?
I'm worried about you.
Don't be stupid, Gabs.
I don't want you to be blindsided.
I'm not even sure I can stop what's happen--
If you go against me on this,
stuff about you is gonna come out.
[cell phone rings]
Hello?
I have to tell you about something.
Okay.
You should write this down.
Okay.
Um, just hang on.
Uh, don't hang up. Just hang on.
[sighs]
Okay, I'm ready.
This is about Korea.
Okay.
The other woman at the bar went to HR, but nothing came of it.
And now Gabi's gonna go to the press,
and I have no reason to tell her not to.
She said Travis was--
They left after they had one drink,
because Gabi didn't want to go back
into one of those rooms,
along with the other female exec.
But the remaining company personnel didn't...
Mm-mm.
This one falls on Emil.
The second he picked up that phone to call her.
Intimidation. Coercion.
We keep disarming land mines,
and he's just out there creating new ones.
[sighs]
I'm leaving.
And what does talking you into staying look like?
A time machine and a bottle of scotch.
Uber's Jurassic Park.
If the T. rex doesn't tear you apart,
The New York Times will.
Get everyone you love out
and let's just hope the dinosaurs eat each other.
Hey.
-Here. -Oh, thank you.
What's this?
[laughs]
I'm the one that's in the shit.
I'm the one fixing the drinks.
I can't argue with that.
Are you sure?
You seem to be in the midst of one hell of an argument.
I am, with myself.
I did this.
If I didn't, I sure as hell helped.
I tried to put a goat in the barn
to keep my thoroughbred calm.
Instead, there was some kind of a toxic chemical reaction
that happened between the two of them.
So he needs to be removed.
Emil, he's not your founder.
Excise him with clean margins like the malignancy he is.
Cut him out.
Don't just sit there blaming yourself.
You be you and keep trying.
You'll figure it.
[Hazelbaker] He's expecting your call.
Can we just wait for one minute--?
No. No, we can't. You have a slot, Travis.
We are on his timetable, not yours.
-Okay. -Hang on. Hang on. There you go.
-He's on right now? -No, just give it a minute.
[sighs]
Hey, Mr. President, sir.
I'm very well, thank you.
Listen, I am calling to let you know
I'll be stepping down from the economic council.
It was my honor to--
He hung up.
Well, maybe if you're lucky,
this gets reported as you listening
to your customers or employees.
Maybe we start to get out of this tailspin.
I am not optimistic.
You're not-- why the fuck did I just throw away my FaceTime
with the president?
The board convenes this afternoon
in Los Angeles with Holder.
Hold on, he's done?
And we go to him?
Yeah. They're reading it at his law firm.
No PDFs. Dead trees only.
Your plane will be ready in two hours.
[distant telephone rings]
[Pearl Jam] Come, you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build The death place
You that build all the guns
[Bonnie] This is Bonnie Kalanick.
Please leave me a message and I'll get back to you.
Thanks.
[Pearl Jam] You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see Through your masks
You that never done nothing
But to build and destroy
You play with my world
Like it was your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
Then you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want us to believe
But I see through your eyes...
-Can it go faster? -Oh, yeah.
-[laughs] -Oh, yeah.
-I want to go fast. -All right.
All right, we're gonna open it up.
[Bonnie] Go faster!
[Bonnie screams]
Let me drive!
Hello.
...all the triggers
This is Mr. Kalanick.
For the others to fire
Then you sit back and watch
As the death count gets higher
You hide in white mansions
While young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies and is buried in the mud
I need you to take me to Fresno.
[Holder] Hello, everyone.
I understand Mr. Kalanick is unable to join.
But we know everything, and we have it all in here.
So let's begin.
[exhales]
Sexism, lying, lack of diversity.
These are all bad enough, but it's only the beginning.
Yeah. Section Two: driver violence against passengers.
Section Five: sexual predation done by drivers.
Section Six: sexual predation in the Uber offices.
This is--
Eric...
what are your recommendations?
I have them outlined,
and it's not a short list.
[eyeglasses clatter]
[heart monitor beeping]
[Travis] Is this the best hospital?
Looks like a dipshit hospital.
It was the closest trauma center.
I'm gonna make some calls.
Look, they know what they're doing.
This is the shit I know about.
[Arianna] Travis?
It's four o'clock It's got to stop
Tell him
"Take no more"
You're okay.
She practices her speech
As he opens the door
You are.
She rolls over
You're okay.
Breathe.
...she's in love with him
Can't find a better man
She dreams in color, she dreams in red
Can't find a better man
Can't find A better man
No, you don't need to tell me twice.
[knock on door]
You were good to come.
I can't believe she's dead.
She loved you.
She loved you both, so much.
She always talked about you. How proud she was.
Sorry, I just need to speak with Arianna before she leaves.
Hey.
[Angie] Is your dad--?
[Cory] Doctors are cautiously optimistic.
The fuck that means.
[inaudible]
Ange, I'm glad to see you,
but you shouldn't have come.
Whatever he used to be? Gone.
Those aren't human beings.
Mr. Holder's immediate recommendations.
Emil?
You okay with this?
At this point, all we owe him is a heads-up.
And by "we," I assume you mean the Board.
No.
Me talking to him doesn't show you taking responsibility.
This needs to come from you first.
The Board needs to see you stand behind Holder's recommendations.
Or?
The Board stops standing behind you.
[scoffs]
[sighs]
You ever fire anyone before?
No one that mattered.
Tell him what the meeting is about right away.
You're gonna want to make him feel better, because...
well, despite your past behavior,
you're not actually a sociopath.
Make it clean and quick.
Hey, you okay?
Your dad okay?
Yeah, thanks. You can come in.
[sighs]
So you talked to Gabi about South Korea.
[scoffs] Well...
she must be pissed if she's calling you to complain.
No, she didn't call me, dude. She called someone else.
That's the problem.
Oh...
fuck.
Offsite.
Ten o'clock at night,
nobody to hear if I start yelling.
Where is Gurley, hmm?
Skulking with, uh, Cohler and Fenton
in legal down the hall?
Yeah, something like that.
You're extending me the courtesy.
It's always a friend who does it.
The Holder Report
specifically recommends your removal.
The Board's voting on it in the morning.
I didn't realize you could be fired
for asking someone's ex-girlfriend to tell the truth.
Well, it's not just South Korea.
I mean, there is a pattern.
There's India, there's the fuckup at the Waverly.
I was off the fucking record!
Do you think I want to be doing this right now?
To lose you? I don't, okay?
But I cannot let anything take me down.
Not even you.
If there's something that could kill Uber,
then it's my job to remove it.
It's fucking bullshit.
And the sad thing is,
you're gonna want to talk to me about this.
About everything that's about to come down.
And I don't know if I'm gonna pick up the phone.
[scoffs] Jesus.
Fuck, my mom just died.
You're not gonna pick up the phone?
-Man, fuck you! -Fuck. Okay, I'm sorry.
Of course. Of course.
Of course, man.
I'm sorry you're in this situation.
You know what? I'm sorry.
You're always gonna be Team Uber.
You are.
Always.
But I got to back the Board's decision.
You're out.
[Gurley] Best we can hope for is that he walks away,
stays quiet for a few days.
Mortification can be a silencer.
Yeah, or he gets angry,
he starts talking about how I signed off
on all those mistakes,
how he's throwing his body in front of a bullet.
I'll make sure the Board knows that you took care of it.
They'll endorse a leave of absence for you.
How long you been planning all this?
It's not like that.
It's a leave. It's not an insurrection.
You just need to go away for a while.
Let us clean up the mess, then we'll bring you back in.
I'll make sure that the Board is clear on the statement
that it's not permanent.
So I'll get to see the press release before it goes out.
You're gonna come back stronger, I promise you.
This is the chapter in your memoir where you reassess.
It's all wins after this.
I'll write the introduction for you.
[indistinct chatter]
[Bonderman] Travis back in Fresno?
Far from here, yes.
Leave of absence starts tonight.
He take it okay?
He took it.
That's all that matters to us.
[Arianna] Can we please gather?
I would like to thank you all
on behalf of the Uber board for being here.
Our culture has taken ill,
but we've called upon a great healer.
Let's talk about our recommendations
from Eric Holder.
I am passionate about redemption,
which is why I can state with authority
that Travis is on a path that will save this company.
And to that end, he has something to say.
Thank you, Arianna.
[clears throat]
The last eight years of my life has only been about Uber.
Recent events have brought home for me
that people are more important than work,
and I need to take some time off from the day-to-day
to grieve my mother, to take care of my father,
to work on myself,
and to focus on building out a world-class leadership team.
I mean, the team we had...
The ultimate responsibility for where we've gotten
and how we've gotten here rests on my shoulders.
But if we're gonna work on Uber 2.0,
I also need to work on Travis 2.0.
[cheers and applause]
[applause continues]
In case this one was confusing,
Emil Michael has been removed
by unanimous vote of the Board.
This is just absolutely brainless.
They fired Himmler to make Hitler seem less culpable.
You hate working here that much?
-It's a trade-off. -You want to do the best work,
the shit nobody else will let you do, actually disrupt?
Then you gotta work with people
who give you enough room to do that.
-And sometimes they're... -Assholes.
Yeah.
The next recommendations,
well, they're all about culture.
Always Be Hustling?
Not anymore.
I'm gonna go to the bathroom.
There must be balance...
as you can read in my book.
'Cause I've carried my weight And I've been a strong man
Yeah, yeah
Listen to the man in the liquor store
Yelling, "Anybody want a drink
Before the war?"
-Were you followed? -No.
Turned off my phone like you asked.
Were you?
So what say we, all of us, come together,
do our best work,
and get to the next generation of this great company?
[cheers and applause]
He shouldn't be here.
If you want to launch the next gen of Uber, Bill,
you have to let me launch the next gen of Travis.
And you live in a shell
You create your own hell
-[man shouts] - You live in the past
And talk about war
It happens.
Lots of people think they want to talk until it's time.
I want to talk.
I think the best thing is, think on it and then call me.
Or don't--
I just want to know that what I'm doing is the...
[deep breath]
I mean, I think I'm doing the right thing.
But, like, how do you know?
Hey, no, no. Don't go.
I don't want to be an asshole.
You've got a heart of stone you can never feel
Okay.
You say, "Oh, I'm not afraid...
So what do you have to tell me to feel that's not who you are?
So stop talking of war
'Cause you know We've heard it all before
Why don't you go out there
And do something useful?
You ever heard of Greyball?
Oh, listen to the man...
It's a programming thing.
It's just to essentially target...
Yelling, "Anybody want a drink
Before the war?"
"Anybody want a drink before the war?"
Aha
"Anybody want to drink before the war?"
[Sinead O'Connor vocalizes]
[vocalizing]
Ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh