He got booted. The term was gross misconduct.

So far, this billionaire CEO known for killing the taxi industry has kept quiet his booting from the whole kitchens thing he started.

The term was “gross misconduct.”

Travis Kalanick

CloudKitchens

300+ employees have left Travis Kalanick’s ghost-kitchen startup, in an exodus that reflects deep tensions over leadership, secrecy, and pay

Travis Kalanick’s stealth $5 billion startup CloudKitchens is Uber all over again.

Hundreds of employees left Travis Kalanick’s ghost-kitchen startup this year — in an exodus that reflects long-simmering tensions about leadership, secrecy, and pay. Inside the organization, people described an alpha-male society reflective of Kalanick’s first startup:

The Kalanick leading CloudKitchens was not changed, humbled, or reformed. He was the same Kalanick who in just a few roller-coaster years had turned Uber into a global juggernaut — at one point the world’s most valuable tech startup — by barreling full speed ahead and ultimately crashing out.

In one important way, though, Kalanick has changed. The man leading CloudKitchens is incredibly concerned with secrecy and preventing any challenges to his control, and he has designed the company with that in mind. – Source