Uber COO and CMO to Step Down

[northerdome]

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/07/uber-chief-operating-officer-chief-marketing-officer-stepping-down.html

[mdorazio]

This is really weird to me. It seems strange for a CEO to effectively fire the COO and CMO because they want Operations and Marketing to report directly to the CEO unless the company is in serious trouble and needs a single authoritarian leader to set direction across very different departments. Does anyone else have more info on this?

[jjeaff → mdorazio]

I don't get from the article that marketing will report directly to the CEO.

It says "Jill" will take on all the marketing and will have 2 others under her to divy up some of her other responsibilities.

[SilasX]

From the top of the article:

>Now that the company is public, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says he has more time to be involved in the day-to-day operations of Uber’s core businesses.

Ummmm what? Isn't it normally the opposite?

[mlevental → SilasX]

pre ipo CEOs have to fund raise