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The sound of Uber's fall from glory resonated louder with each negative headline that plagued the company for months. Uber's struggle through damaging scandals have played out in blaring viral media slogans, such that many experts were not shy to proclaim the company's severe public relations problems. While it's clear Uber has more than its fair share of problems, they are not, first and foremost, public relations problems. Many critics brought up the company's negative influence on ridership in public transportation and the declining revenue it produced for cities.

Ultimately, those operational scandals resulted in the replacement of Uber's co-founder Travis Kalanick as CEO in August of 2017 with Dara Khosrowshahi who was previously the head of the Expedia group. He had a tall order: to fix a business model that was harming drivers as well as the environment, and attracted passengers and revenue away from public transportation. (Hill, 2018)

Let's take a look at Uber's values, both back in the old days under CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick, and then the current values under the leadership of Dara Khosrowshahi, who was brought in when the company was spiraling downward due to multiple controversies brought on by cultural failings of the previous leadership.

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