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Bloomberg. Economic Forum underway in Devos, Switzerland. We'll be bringing new interviews from the event

all week with Tom Keene live from Devos. This morning, the Bloomberg editor-in-chief

John Mikkelthway sat down at the event for an interview with the new CEO of Uber, Dara Koss Rashahi.

I want to take a listen to what he had to say in that conversation right now.

You are close to six months into the job, and I wondered what you saw in terms of the year ahead at Uber is your biggest

challenge what was the thing that you think about most when it comes to 2018 we we

definitely have our share of challenges at Uber.

And for me, where I want to get Uber to the year ahead is a year of normalcy.

2017 was, I think we'll go down as one of the most difficult

years for any company out there and I have to I have to give credit to the Uber team

and the employees there.

It is a group of true believers who believe in our mission,

who believe in mobility as a service

being available to consumers everywhere at a reasonable cost.

And what my job in 2018 is to get rid of the distractions and get the company back to business, get the company back to normal.

See, there's a lot that we've done in the past six months as far as bringing new investors,

driving a new culture and norms where doing the right thing

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