For Uber, the embattled ride-hail juggernaut now valued at $70 billion, much of the company's future is resting on what happens this week.
But it's not just the meetings that CEO Travis Kalanick is having with potential candidates to become its first chief operating officer — an appointment focused on fixing the massive controversies that have washed over the ride-hailing company around its dysfunctional management.
He's also gathered leaders from Uber's self-driving division in Pittsburgh and its counterpart in San Francisco for a critical summit that started on Monday. While this isn't the first meeting between the leaders of its kind, sources say this one has been aimed at hashing out issues of leadership, the entity's technological progress and questions about what the priority should be for the Advanced Technology Group (ATG), the name of Uber's self-driving unit.
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