Party still raging for Uber boss
OUSTED Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was back to his partying ways in Miami over the weekend after testifying in a California court just a few days earlier.
The tech exec — who was criticized in his CEO days for giving his staffers crude frat-guy party tips for a Miami retreat — was spotted on Friday at a South Beach club with a table of pals till 4 a.m., ordering up about $10,000 worth of booze and surrounded by beautiful women.
Kalanick — who on Tuesday took the stand in the Waymo v. Uber trade secrets trial in San Francisco (Uber settled on Friday) — seemed in a celebratory mood, spies said.
“Kalanick was with a large group and enjoying himself at the nightclub,” said a witness at hot spot Rockwell.
“There were parades of Dom Pérignon being brought to his table while beautiful women were seated with them.” The source added that “one woman caught the eye of Travis — and the two seemed to be very flirtatious the entire night. He was seen walking into the nightclub with a group of guys and a group of girls, but he was later paying a lot of attention to a beautiful brunette. He was next to two pretty brunettes, and seemed really into one of them. He was flirting with the girl all night.” The group left at about 4 a.m., we hear.
Kalanick knows a thing or two about partying in Miami. In a controversial memo sent to Uber employees back in 2013 — known infamously in tech circles simply as the “Miami letter” — Kalanick advised staffers: “We do not have a budget to bail anyone out of jail. Don’t be that guy,” as well as, “Do not have sex with another employee UNLESS a) you have asked that person for that privilege and they have responded with an emphatic ‘YES! I will have sex with you,’ ” and “There will be a $200 puke charge.”
Last year, he was caught on video in an embarrassing verbal tirade with an Uber driver, and resigned as CEO in June after an investigation uncovered a culture of sexism and bullying at the firm. Reps for Uber and Kalanick did not get back to us. Rockwell did not comment.