Inside the new proposal that exacerbated Uber's board divisions

Recently Travis Kalanick appointed two new directors - Ursula Burns and John Thain to the company without informing them

The phone calls began late Friday among Uber’s new chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, and the ride-hailing company’s executives, as well as board members and a raft of lawyers. They were facing an emergency.

The problem was that Travis Kalanick, Uber’s former chief executive and a board member, had appointed two new directors — Ursula Burns, the former CEO of Xerox, and John Thain, the former chief of Merrill Lynch — to the privately held company without informing them. The moves, which pushed the eight-member board to 10 people, gave Mr Kalanick new potential allies on major decisions at Uber.

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