Uber's CEO walked back his statements after calling Saudi Arabia's murder of Jamal Khashoggi a 'mistake'
journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi as a “mistake,” likening it to his company’s misfires with self-driving cars.
“I think that government said they made a mistake,” he said when asked whether Yasir Al-Rumayyan — who runs Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund — should be sitting on Uber’s board given the nation’s role in the murder of a U.S. journalist. Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is Uber’s fifth-largest shareholder.
“It’s a serious mistake,” Khosrowshahi continued. “We’ve made mistakes, too, with self-driving. We’ve stopped [self-]driving and we’re recovering from that mistake. I think people make mistakes. It doesn’t mean they can never be forgiven. They’ve taken it seriously.”
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