Uber Lands Former Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe
David Plouffe, the former campaign manager of President Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential bid, was today named SVP of policy and strategy for Uber.
In an interview with POLITICO’s Mike Allen, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick referred to Plouffe’s new role as Uber’s “campaign manager,” likening ‘big taxi cartel’ as ‘the incumbent’ and Uber as ‘the challenger.’
“City Councils are voting on Uber all the time, and we have state legislatures voting on us, on the regular,” Kalanick told Allen.
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