Dara Khosrowshahi took on the top job as CEO at Uber (UBER) in 2017 when the company was going through a crisis of confidence and pressure from investors led to the resignation of its CEO and founder Travis Kalanick. Mr. Khosrowshahi who had spent the prior 12 years building Expedia (EXPE) into a travel juggernaut took Uber public in May 2019 at $45 per share.
In our article, Insider Weekends: Dara Khosrowshahi’s $9 Million Purchase Of Uber published in 2021 we mentioned: