Dara Khosrowshahi

Money Moves

Leading Uber's expansion into corporate catering

Uber agreed Oct. 6 to buy ezCater, a Boston catering platform for workplace meals, for $2.3 billion in cash. As of Oct. 8, Uber had not filed a Form 8-K with regulators, and no rival bid had emerged.

Updated Oct 26

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As of October 2026: Active

Uber Technologies filed a WARN notice with Illinois on September 2, 2026, notifying 363 employees at its Chicago office of a mass layoff effective November 2. The filing starts a 60-day notice period, giving workers time to prepare and seek new roles.

Updated Oct 8

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As of October 2026: Leading global restructuring; said layoff savings could fund lower prices

Uber filed a notice with Washington state on Sept. 2 saying it would lay off 93 employees in Seattle. The cuts are part of a global restructuring that eliminates about 3,300 corporate jobs, roughly 10% of Uber's workforce and its largest reduction since 2020. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filing listed Nov. 2 as the layoff effective date.

Updated Oct 7

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As of October 2026: Leading Uber's autonomous vehicle strategy

On September 2, Uber filed notices covering 253 positions at two San Francisco offices, effective November 2. That's part of a global restructuring that will cut 3,300 jobs, about 10% of the workforce.

Updated Oct 6

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As of July 2026: Runs Lime's largest shareholder

Lime went public on the Nasdaq on July 1, 2026. The e-bike and scooter operator priced its shares at $25, raising about $174 million and valuing the company near $1.6 billion.

Updated Jul 1

New Capabilities

As of May 2026: Architect of Uber's pivot from in-house self-driving to AV platform

For most of its life, Uber has been a marketplace for human drivers with their own cars. On May 6, 2026, the company laid out the clearest version yet of a different model: a marketplace for robotaxis it neither owns nor operates.

Updated May 31

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As of May 2026: Leading Uber's multi-partner autonomous vehicle strategy

Uber sold its self-driving car unit in 2020 after burning billions and killing a pedestrian. Now it's spending up to $1.25 billion to do it all over again — this time with Rivian building the cars. The deal commits Uber to purchasing up to 50,000 autonomous R2 sport utility vehicles for deployment across 25 cities by 2031, beginning in San Francisco and Miami in 2028.

Updated May 30

New Capabilities

As of May 2026: Leading Uber's pivot to autonomous vehicle marketplace operator

Nvidia and Uber announced plans to deploy 100,000 Level 4 autonomous robotaxis across 28 cities on four continents by 2028, using Nvidia's new DRIVE Hyperion 10 platform and Alpamayo, an open-source reasoning model. Five automakers—BYD, Geely, Stellantis, Lucid, and Mercedes-Benz—will manufacture vehicles with Nvidia's hardware pre-installed. Commercial rides begin in Los Angeles and San Francisco in the first half of 2027.

Updated May 30