Uber CEO: We're in a Political Battle with an 'Assh*le'

RANCHOS PALOS VERDES, California — Uber cofounder and CEO Travis Kalanick described his ride-service company's battle with entrenched city-regulated taxi services as a political war

"We were in a campaign where the candidate is Uber and the incumbent is an asshole called 'taxi,'" said Kalanick.

The outspoken CEO said his business, which lets drivers use their own cars to deliver taxi services outside the sanctioned and city-controlled taxi systems in a number of major metropolitan cities, is fighting deeply entrenched systems Read more...