Uber CEO on the fight in California: ?We can?t go out and hire 50,000 people overnight?

Filed under:In a podcast interview, Dara Khosrowshahi rejected the notion that Uber will hire its drivers in California In a podcast interview Wednesday, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi rejected the notion his company is capable of employing all of its drivers in California, as a state judge has ordered it to do. “And we are trying to figure out exactly what we do going forward.”Regardless, Khosrowshahi said that Uber’s response would be to limit the number of drivers allowed on its platform and to raise prices for customers after it eventually relaunches in the state. Galloway, who in addition to podcasting also serves as a professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business, asked whether Uber is “ground zero for income inequality,” noting the gap between Uber’s regular employees who earn six-figure salaries and above, and the millions of drivers, some of whom live below the poverty line. it’s called capitalism,” Khosrowshahi said.