Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped (p. 331) reports tense discussions as Uber’s Board of Directors summarized the Holder Report and changes to Uber’s governance. After Arianna Huffington announced a woman joining Uber’s board, board member David Bonderman remarked “I’ll tell you what it shows. It’s that it’s much likelier to be more talking on the board.” Isaac says “the room froze” and attendees perceived that “one of Uber’s board members [had] just made a sexist comment about women talking too much.”
Travis Kalanick, long in dispute with Bonderman, took this opportunity to have Bonderman removed from the Board. (Isaac p. 332-335)