FILE PHOTO - Chief Executive Officer of Uber Travis Kalanick arrives at the Google, HBO and the Smithsonians American Art Museum Celebration of Creativity cocktail party to celebrate the White House Correspondents Association dinner weekend in Washington, U.S., April 29, 2016. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo
SAN FRANCISCO: As Travis Kalanick (pic) was in Chicago interviewing a candidate to be his deputy at Uber Technologies Inc, two investors were on a plane to deliver the news that they wanted the chief executive officer gone.
Matt Cohler and Peter Fenton, partners at venture capital firm Benchmark, hand-delivered a letter urging Kalanick’s resignation, people familiar with the matter said.
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