› On June 20, 2017, Travis Kalanick was in Chicago when he received a letter titled "Moving Uber Forward." Five of Uber's biggest investors, Benchmark among them, demanded that he step down as CEO immediately.
› After several hours of talks, he agreed.
› It was the end of the most high-profile fight over company culture in Silicon Valley history, and a good example of how a founder can be pushed out without a board vote.
› Four months of scandals that added up There was no single scandal.