Show less Berdakin and Diskin kept the property and operations teams in the dark from each other, so one rarely knew what the other was doing. "They don't need to fucking know. They're idiots. Don't worry about it," a former employee recalls Diskin saying about the operations team. When some employees pushed back against Berdakin's and Diskin's comportment, people said that Kalanick's response, as far as they could tell, was simply to gently chastise the men with a smile. "The problem is they were still running it the way they did when it was a super-small company," one employee said. As CloudKitchens expanded, the leadership never really changed or accepted that "they weren't working with their four best friends anymore."