How Uber prompted its employees to take a plunge into entrepreneurship

How Uber prompted its employees to take a plunge into entrepreneurship

Travis Kalanick, founder and former chief executive officer of Uber Inc., center, stands on the trading floor during the company's initial public offering (IPO) at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Friday, May 10, 2019. The No. 1 ride-hailing company's shares will start trading on the New York Stock Exchange after it raised $8.1 billion in the biggest U.S. IPO since 2014, pricing shares at $45 each. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

In the run-up to its rocky initial public offering last week, Uber Technologies Inc.’s impact was analyzed from an endless number of angles: traffic, employment, driver wages, VC investing, San Francisco housing prices and on and on.