Travis Kalanick is not invited to ring during the IPO of Uber: report

The founders are a venerated breed in Silicon Valley, but for Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick this goodwill has long since evaporated. Now, according to several reports, Kalanick will not be invited to the balcony of the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate the company that will be made public next Friday. Ouch.

Uber's CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, would likely have refused Kalanick's invitation. Axios initially reported that Kalanick last week called for the presence of the bell at a meeting of the board of directors. Originally, Khosrowshashi was expected to be accompanied by senior executives and a group of older Uber drivers.

This does not mean that Kalanick will be totally excluded from the event. He has been relegated to the NYSE with other executives of Uber. And not on the balcony. Because, you know, of all the horrible things that he did and said that led to his ousting in 2017.

As CEO, Khosrowshahi spent most of his time cleaning up Kalanick's mess. So it's not surprising that he does not really want to have the famous founder of Uber Technology's brother here. Despite everything, Kalanick is at least slightly injured in the buttocks. "[E]At the very time that Mr. Khosrowshahi was using the word "culture", Mr. Kalanick considers it a barely veiled synonym of his reign, "reports The New York Times, citing Kalanick's friends.

Not that anyone should feel bad for underlying Kalanick. He can still wipe his tears off the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with some $ 9 billion that his 8.6% stake in Uber is valued at.