Recode Decode: Frances Frei, SVP of leadership and strategy, Uber

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2017

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Live onstage: Uber SVP Frances Frei talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the future of the beleaguered ride-hailing company. Frei came to Uber from Harvard Business School, where she studied leadership and diversity, and says the company's problems are neither unusual nor unfixable. Uber's employees want to do the right thing, she explains, but have been historically let down by management and not given an outlet to call out bad behavior. Frei also talks about why she rejects Uber board member Arianna Huffington's concept of "zero tolerance," why ex-CEO Travis Kalanick can be redeemed and how to fix the broader epidemic of sexual harassment in Silicon Valley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever wished that you could download an entire HD movie in seconds or have your phone battery last for days or even years?
0:07.5	Well, Ericsson is about to change the game in cellular networking. Get ready, here comes 5G.
0:13.0	Find out what the future looks like at ericsson.com-5G
0:17.0	That's ericsson.com-slash5G
0:22.0	RECOAD RADIO presents RECOAD DECOAD coming to you from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:31.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Executive Editor of RECOAD. You may know me as a professional Ariana Huffington impersonator.
0:38.0	How are you, everyone? But in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to RECOAD DECOAD.
0:43.0	A podcast about tech and media is key players, big ideas and how they're changing the world we live in.
0:48.0	You can find more episodes of RECOAD DECOAD anywhere you listen to your podcasts.
0:52.0	We're on Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, Tuning, Stitcher SoundCloud and more. Or just visit recode.net-podcast-formmore.
1:01.0	Today we have a special bonus episode for you.
1:04.0	Last week I spoke to Uber's new senior vice president for leadership and strategy, Francis Fry.
1:09.0	We talked about what Uber is going to do now that CEO Travis Kalinick has stepped down.
1:15.0	Fry's work around diversity at Harvard and the larger epidemic of sexual harassment in tech.
1:20.0	And we taped this in front of a sold-out crowd on the Ericsson campus in Santa Clara, California.
1:26.0	We hope to do more of these live RECOAD DECOAD tapings so it was really great seeing so many of you there.
1:33.0	Let's take a listen.
1:35.0	I like saying sources close to the situation when I write stories.
1:39.0	But now today we actually have a source, an actual person. She's not a source close to the situation.
1:43.0	She never leaks anything to me. It's really irritating.
1:46.0	But one of the things we're doing with RECOAD DECOAD is we're trying to have really substantive conversations with leaders, all kinds, on all kinds of subjects.
1:55.0	And when we, it's growing, RECOAD DECOAD is doing really well financially and also with the audience.
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