All I was told was that Kalanick was being pushed out in an investor coup, and that I needed to hurry up and file a story before someone beat me to it. What I wouldn’t know until much later: at least one source in the syndicate full of people plotting Kalanick’s downfall wanted to make sure Kalanick would never return to his spot at the top. While most of the syndicate expected the soft landing story to be carried out as planned, there were a select few who wanted it to look as messy as it all really was. And they used me, an unwitting participant, to make that happen.
