> but he did create a giant company that has the highest(?) valuation of any SV startup. He deserves some respect and compliments for that.
The only people that benefited from his achivement were the investors. Considering where Uber stands at the moment they might not ever see a return on that.
If creating value gives you some sort of moral pass then we shouldn't have any sort of issues with epipens being more expensive, or martin shkreli jacking up drug prices... after all they did it in the name of creating value.
If you prefer to read what I posted that way, then that's your prerogative. I am simply stating that this isn't some kind of zero sum game or that it's black and white. I even stated (which you conveniently left out) that he does deserve criticism for the issues that happened during his tenure, and I believe he deserves a lot.
The problem is were never going to know how much of the success your praising is tied to the awful behavior that you say we should be critical of.
Were talking about the lance armstrong of CEO's. The collective behavior is corporate doping, lying cheating and stealing to get to the top isn't the path to sustaining success.
The only people that benefited from his achivement were the investors. Considering where Uber stands at the moment they might not ever see a return on that.
If creating value gives you some sort of moral pass then we shouldn't have any sort of issues with epipens being more expensive, or martin shkreli jacking up drug prices... after all they did it in the name of creating value.