Hello, this is Simon Long, the Economist's Finance Editor, and you're listening to a special edition of Money Talks,

where we look back over some of our most popular items of the year.

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Let's start with the ridehailing app Uber

which has been mired in scandal all year.

There were accusations of sexual harassment. which has been mired in scandal all year.

There were accusations of sexual harassment and legal wrangling with Wamo

and criticism for failing to disclose that it had covered up a data hack

that affected 57 million customers and drivers.

In August we spoke to Alexandra Swirtshire US technology editor

when Dara Kosswa Shahi, the former expedia boss,

was named as Uber's new chief executive.

He appeared to be starting as he meant to go on by saying sorry.

Alexander told us what was top of his intray at Silicon Valley's most scandal-prone tech company.

There are three things that he has to do. The first is to fix Uber's culture, and I think that that sounds more easily said than done. Culture is built from the top but it's also built from the

top but it's also built from the foundation of a company and Uber was growing

so quickly that no one put in the work to really describe what Uber stood for except for rapid growth.

So that's the first order of the day, kind of boosting the morale of employees and assuring

them that he has values and that he is going to create a strong

moral culture at a firm that's lacked one.

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