explaining to me the original vision behind the company. it was for me, my co-founder and our 100 friends to be able to push a button and an s-class mercedes rolls up that was it. but everybody wanted it. all of our friends wanted it and their friends wanted it. we just opened it up. reporter: uber doesn t employee their drivers. instead it serves as a technology middleman connecting them to passengers. its valuation has surpassed companies like delta and hertz but the press coverage hasn t always been so friendly. it was terrifying. reporter: just last month, a sun yore uber executive said at a private dinner uber should pay $1 million to hire opposition researchers to dig up dirt on journalists writing negative pieces. silicon valley blogger sara lacy, one of the apparent targets of the scheme. i ve covered powerful tech companies for a long time and powerful moguls to a long time. i ve never heard a plan like that detailed before.
he did put out a statement saying i m obviously mortified and embarrassed that my idiotic e-mails during my farther tenty days were made public, i have no excuse. is that enough? he have been evan has a history of bad behavior. i think in general we tend to look the other way when the brash air began young founder is being a brash air began young founder. i think aaron has done a lot of despicable things that didn t get called out this much. at least he apologized. at least he apologized, indeed. i m glad you re early, there s a few brash founders who are young women like yourself, but it continues to amaze me how this goes by and i guess in our instant message culture and it vanishes. sara lacy, thanks very much for joining us. thanks, howie. ahead on media buzz, glenn
what is it with some of these young start-up rich guys in silicone valley? one wrote a bunch of disparaging e-mails while he was a student at stanford five years ago. i can t read much of this on the air. i hope at least six girls blank your blank last night. get laid, drunk sex would be a lot of fun right now. did i just pee on lily? this is pretty gross. yes, it is pretty gross. and a co-founder of the dating app tinder has been placed on leave by parent company iac average being sued for sexual harassment. whitney wolf says in the suit that he called her a slut, a gold digger and refused to credit her role in starting the company because, quote, you re a girl. i spoke earlier with sara lacy, founder of the tech sight pando daily. she was in memphis. welcome. thank you for having me back.
what is it with some of these young start-up rich guys in silicone valley? one wrote a bunch of disparaging e-mails while he was a student at stanford five years ago. i can t read much of this on the air. i hope at least six girls blank your blank last night. get laid, drunk sex would be a lot of fun right now. did i just pee on lily? this is pretty gross. yes, it is pretty gross. and a co-founder of the dating app tinder has been placed on leave by parent company iac average being sued for sexual harassment. whitney wolf says in the suit that he called her a slut, a gold digger and refused to credit her role in starting the company because, quote, you re a girl. i spoke earlier with sara lacy, founder of the tech sight pando daily. she was in memphis.