A journalist took an Uber from downtown Manhattan to the West Side, only to end up paying $51.69, including the driver’s tip, for the 2.95-mile trip. Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber CEO, walks to lunch at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 13, 2023 in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Uber’s increasing prices has left its own CEO Dara Khosrowshahi in shock. A journalist took an Uber from downtown Manhattan to the West Side to interview Dara, only to end up paying $51.69, including the driver’s tip, for the 2.95-mile trip.
On being shown the fate, Dara exclaimed, “Oh my God. Wow,” Wired editor-at-large Steven Levy revealed recently. Moreover, Steven sat down with Dara for an interview at Uber’s annual product event Go-Get in May, and asked Dara to guess the cost of his trip.
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“Twenty bucks,” Dara speculated. “Five minutes earlier, the price was $20 higher,” Steven told the CEO, telling him how far off he was.
Also, Steven said Dara attributed the fee to “surge pricing,” according to New York Post. “A surge makes no sense,” Steven replied. “It’s 10 a.m. on a sunny weekday, and it’s not like the president’s in town.”
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