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UBER CEO MAKES DUBIOUS CLAIM OF ALMOST WORLD RECORD AT WII TENNIS
[quote name="Rafiki"]<a href="https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/was-ubers-ceo-really-the-second-best-wii-sports-tennis-player/">https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/was-ubers-ceo-really-the-second-best-wii-sports-tennis-player/</a> If you weren't certain Uber was a terrible company with awful leadership, here's 50+ paragraphs and thousands of words in the most asinine investigation ever published: [quote]Last weekend's New York Times profile of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick had plenty of important revelations about Kalanick and the company he runs, both of which have been facing some tough PR lately. But there was one incidental, almost throwaway line buried in the piece that made me stop in my tracks: [quote]"In other personal pursuits, he once held the world’s second-highest score for the Nintendo Wii Tennis video game."[/quote][/quote] "Time stopped. I slumped back in my chair and unfocused my eyes towards the middle-distance and began contemplating whether this world was real or if I was merely living in a dream." [quote]What's more, the paper of record doesn't hedge its declaration with a "he said" or "he claimed." Kalanick's "Wii Tennis" high score is stated as a fact, and one that piece author Mike Isaac said on Twitter was "triple sourced." (Isaac didn't respond to further request for comment on his basis for the line [<I>because that would be retarded</I> -ed].)[/quote] [/quote]