Thanks to my whetstone, over the past 11 years I have: My morning routine is my whetstone, the thing I do to sharpen my ax.
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Rachel Whetstone is departing Facebook for Netflix Rachel Whetstone, who led corporate communications for Facebook for the past year during a nonstop series of public-relations crises, is decamping for Netflix.
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This time it's Rachel Whetstone, head of communications and policy.
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"This has been hard for us to process," Whetstone admits.
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In a statement, Rachel Whetstone did not cite a reason.
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You took over after Rachel Whetstone left, first for Uber.
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But Rachel Whetstone also declared that she wanted the job.
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Whetstone will remain at Facebook for a couple more months.
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Like Whetstone, Hazelbaker is a veteran of Google's communications department.
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Apart from Ms. Whetstone, other Uber executives have recently quit.
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Whetstone had only been at the company for a year.
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Whetstone declined comment, and Alexander's attorney didn't get back to me.
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Jones was not as nice in his parting statements as Whetstone.
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Google, under someone named Rachel Whetstone, who I know you know.
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Atkinson's predecessor, Rachel Whetstone, could be more confrontational in her approach.
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Another top communications exec, Rachel Whetstone, also recently decamped to Netflix.
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Plus, the set also comes with a Japanese whetstone for easy sharpening.
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Wirecutter recommends a Whetstone Woodenware pin handmade from hard maple in Indiana.
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Marooney will handle product communications and Whetstone is taking over corporate comms.
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Hazelbaker, who joined Uber in November 2015, worked with Whetstone at Google.
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" Whetstone tells PEOPLE Dalton had only been driving for Uber "for a month.
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Whetstone will be Facebook's vice president of communications for Whatsapp, Instagram and Messenger.
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Whetstone will be Facebook's vice president of communications for Whatsapp, Instagram and Messenger.
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Whetstone will focus on corporate communications while Marooney will handle the product side.
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Before joining Uber, Whetstone spent 10 years at Google doing a similar job.
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Whetstone was essentially leading the charge for the comms team post-harassment scandal.
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The company just announced that Facebook exec Rachel Whetstone will be replacing him.
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Without my morning routine, my whetstone, my future would be very grim indeed.
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Next up: "Lazaretto," by Diane McKinney-Whetstone, and "The Stand," by Stephen King.
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Over the past few months, Ms. Whetstone has steered Uber through several firestorms.
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Whetstone disagrees that the treatment provided by employees caused his death, Stubenrauch said.
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UL said on Tuesday its head of communications, Rachel Whetstone, will leave the company.
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Uber's head of communications Rachel Whetstone recently quit, reportedly because of conflicts with Kalanick.
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Rachel Whetstone, Uber's head of communications and policy, is leaving the company, Recode reports.
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Whetstone and her team, however, were unable to stave off political pressure from Europe.
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"A lot of these abusive men are love addicts with mental disorders," Whetstone said.
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She replaces Rachel Whetstone, Google's longtime head of policy, who left for Uber in May.
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I just don't know KS: That was kind of Rachel Whetstone, but then she's gone.
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Prior to Uber, Whetstone worked for Google as its SVP of communications and public policy.
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"It's a real privilege to be joining the Facebook family," Whetstone said in a statement.
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Whetstone joined Uber in 2015 after 10 years as a top communications official at Google.
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Politico reported that Rachel Whetstone, the ride-hail company's public relations chief, also attended parties.
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This set comes with a base that'll keep the whetstone from moving as you sharpen.
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Whetstone is the latest high-ranking executive to leave the massive social network in recent months.
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Whetstone reportedly advised Zuckerberg against that approach and suggested he include a nod to Instagram's founders.
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Since being replaced by Whetstone, however, Plouffe's role no longer included day-to-day policy issues.
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I've also learned an amazing amount from watching Rachel Whetstone work her organizational and management magic.
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Whetstone is just one more top executive to leave the beleaguered ridesharing startup in recent months.
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Currently in Finchley, Acton, Ealing, Harrow, and Whetstone, they're looking for new venues all the time.
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It seems the only attempt that stuck was the most recent head of comms Rachel Whetstone.
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Whetstone joined Uber in 2015 as its head of communications and policy, having previously worked at Google.
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Thankfully Monster Hunter: World remedies this madness, as you only have the one whetstone with INFINITE USES.
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This week, Uber's head of communications and policy Rachel Whetstone left after two years with the company.
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Mr. Cameron was then head of the political unit, and Ms. Whetstone had joined three months earlier.
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That exodus is continuing with the exit of Rachel Whetstone, the company's head of policy and communications.
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Whetstone, for example, arrived just over a year ago to run comms for WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger.
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Some recent departures include Rachel Whetstone, head of communication, and Sherif Marakby, vice president of global vehicle programs.
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There are other excellent whetstone knife sharpening systems but they are much more costly and not very portable.
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Ride services company Uber Technologies said on Tuesday its head of communications, Rachel Whetstone, will leave the company.
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In the fall, Facebook had hired a brilliant but fiery veteran of tech industry PR named Rachel Whetstone.
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Rachel Whetstone is leaving Facebook Inc to join Netflix Inc to run global communications for the streaming service.
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Additionally, PR chief Caryn Marooney will now split her duties with Rachel Whetstone, who joined after leaving Uber.
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Recode is reporting that there was some tension between Whetstone and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick over bad press.
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That exodus is continuing with the exit of Rachel Whetstone, the company's head of policy and communications. nyti.
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A spokesman for Whetstone said it has been cooperating with law enforcement since concerns arose two years ago.
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But Whetstone "strongly" disagrees with accusations that its employees were responsible for the other patient's death, Stubenrauch said.
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She took over the top comms job in 2015 after Rachel Whetstone left for a job at Uber.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art announced its recent acquisitions, including works by Pierre Huyghe, Jeffrey Whetstone, and Johann König.
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It was also announced this week that Rachel Whetstone, Uber's head of communications and policy, is leaving the company.
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His former strategy chief, Steve Hilton, is married to Rachel Whetstone, who does communications and public policy for Uber.
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Whetstone reorganized the staff and let many people go, as well as temporarily tamping down its famously pugnacious image.
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Uber's head of policy, Rachel Whetstone, on the other hand, has had a less than friendly relationship with Murdoch.
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"She's less necessary when you have fewer problems," said a source who has worked with both Whetstone and Schrage.
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Rachel Whetstone, the former Uber and Google PR executive who joined Facebook a year ago, is leaving the company.
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"They put all of their good feelings about themselves and base it on being in this relationship," Whetstone said.
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Rachel Whetstone, the company's head of policy and communications, announced her resignation, the latest in a string of departures.
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Now, operating in that No. 2 communications spot under Whetstone is Snapchat's former vice president of communications Jill Hazelbaker.
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Rachel Whetstone is leaving the top corporate communications job at Facebook and will take one running public relations for Netflix.
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Whetstone had recently split communications duties with Caryn Marooney, who will again run the whole global communications division at Facebook.
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Uber's PR chief, Rachel Whetstone, is leaving the ride-hailing company, as Recode first reported and Uber confirmed to Axios.
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In Facebook's latest high–profile departure, corporate communications lead Rachel Whetstone will leave for a top PR role at Netflix.
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She worked with Whetstone at Google and was more recently head of comms at Snap for a very short stint.
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Rachel Whetstone, the head of policy and communications, is the latest top manager to leave, the company said on Tuesday.
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Mr. Kalanick and Ms. Whetstone, two intense personalities, clashed over how to handle external communications, especially in times of crisis.
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But Whetstone has since stepped down and now Kalanick wants to tell Uber's story as he had before, just sweeter.
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Whetstone, who has since moved to Netflix as its chief communications officer, did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment.
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The end result, after baking the knife and sharpening it with a whetstone, is a very formidable rice-based kitchen utensil.
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But Whetstone followed that hiring spree by gutting much of Uber's existing policy team — a process that is still continuing today.
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Ms. Whetstone, who led communications at Google for a decade before joining Uber in 2015, has not detailed her next move.
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While not all co-dependents are love addicts, Whetstone said that all love addicts are co-dependent to an extreme degree.
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In an email to her staff, Whetstone referenced that drama, talking about "always-on jobs" that are exciting yet exhausting, too.
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Ironically, sources said that Whetstone had come to Facebook to avoid the many thorny challenges she had dealt with in previous jobs.
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According to Recode, Whetstone was tired of the drama but investors have also been complaining about the bad press that Uber receives.
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Whetstone was hired at Uber in May 2015; the reported texts from Cameron were sent in late 2015, according to the Times.
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It became clear that Whetstone was bringing a new approach to the job, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
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Among them: Salle Yoo, Uber's longtime top lawyer, and Rachel Whetstone, the company's communications head, who have both since left the company.
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According to Whetstone, avoidant love addicts and obsessive love addicts tend to date each other and exist in a toxic symbiotic relationship.
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Before Uber, Whetstone headed Google's shop, taking over for Elliot Schrage, who went to Facebook to head all its comms and policy.
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Speaking of controversies, Whetstone is replacing former Netflix comms head Jonathan Friedland, who was fired earlier this summer from the digital entertainment company.
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"He had no criminal background so nothing would have turned up for him during the background check he passed," says Uber's Rachel Whetstone.
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According to an internal email from Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, the company's high-profile head of communications and policy Rachel Whetstone is departing.
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"I wanted to let you know that Rachel Whetstone, who heads up policy and communications globally, has decided to leave Uber," wrote Kalanick.
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Eric Alexander, the ride-hailing company's former president of business in Asia-Pacific, has filed suit against former Uber PR chief Rachel Whetstone .
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Both Whetstone, who is now a top Facebook comms exec, and Kunrojpanya are also named as defendants with Uber in the draft complaint.
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Many internally believed Rachel Whetstone, who announced earlier this summer that she was leaving Facebook for Netflix, was a frontrunner for Schrage's job.
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Whetstone, who had held Google's top comms and policy job previously, joined Facebook from Uber in mid-2017 to run communications for WhatsApp.
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While the company's policy operations are now being headed by Rachel Whetstone, Uber's fight in Tallahassee is oddly reminiscent of a political campaign.
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Last year, top Google executive Rachel Whetstone became Uber's Senior Vice President of Policy and Strategy, replacing Plouffe in his day-to-day activities.
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Whetstone joined Facebook about a year ago after leaving a similar position running communications at Uber during some of the company's most fraught days.
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Whetstone is yet another top-level executive departure at Uber, which is facing what amounts to an existential crisis, if startups could have them.
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" Alexander says Whetstone also went to reporters — Bloomberg's Eric Newcomer and Recode's Kara Swisher were named specifically — and told them "false and misleading information.
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I owe all the good in my life to my Rich Habits and in particular, to those Rich Habits that have become my whetstone.
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Former Facebook Vice President of Communications Rachel Whetstone, who now serves as chief communications officer at Netflix, stopped to talk with Zuckerberg and Chan.
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COMMUNICATIONS Ms. Whetstone, who was at Google for a decade in charge of communications, joined Uber as senior vice president for policy and communications.
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In an internal email to employees on Tuesday, Uber's chief executive, Travis Kalanick, said Ms. Whetstone was leaving amicably and of her own volition.
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One of Mr. Cameron's senior advisers at the time, Steve Hilton, is married to Rachel Whetstone, who was the head of communications for Uber.
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Current comms leaders at Instagram and Messenger will continue to lead their teams and get guidance from Whetstone, who will primarily focus on WhatsApp.
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We know that her reason for leaving is complex, but there was some tension between Whetstone and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick over bad press. 2.
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He also believes Whetstone was a source of the media reports, although she was not identified in the reports and Alexander presents no specific evidence.
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But Rachel Whetstone would have no such protections and, in theory, the judge could allow a plaintiff request for things like phone or email records.
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The tough-talking Whetstone was a big hire for Uber when she replaced the previous big hire, Obama political guru David Plouffe, in mid-2015.
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Mr. Kalanick and Ms. Whetstone are intense personalities and occasionally clashed over how to handle external communications, especially in times of crisis, these people said.
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Whetstone, who previously worked at Google at the top of its comms and policy unit, will report to Facebook's VP of global communications Caryn Marooney.
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Alexander's decision to only sue Whetstone — after reportedly considering a broader defendant class — likely speaks to his effort to minimize the appearance of a fishing expedition.
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According to an internal email from Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, the company's high-profile head of communications and policy Rachel Whetstone is departing after two years.
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Behind closed doors, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick often refers to Rachel Whetstone, his SVP for policy and communication, as the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley.
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Most of the Googlers Whetstone recruited are familiar with the corridors of the Washington, D.C., and Asian markets, two worlds the startup needs to navigate well.
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In May, the company had moved Plouffe to a senior adviser role and hired Rachel Whetstone, a longtime PR hand in Silicon Valley, to replace him.
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Ms. Whetstone thereafter proceeded to violate that clause by spreading false and misleading and/or disparaging information about Mr. Alexander's response to the rape in India.
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Stephen Satterfield, a founder of Whetstone, a periodical on global food culture, said he's drinking a lot of bubbles to keep his spirits up in Atlanta.
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KS: Here's what's going to happen if more executives leave, you'll see top executives, like their head of comms Rachel Whetstone or their lawyer Salle Yoo.
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Whetstone was also quickly pulled into handling the myriad of criticisms about the performance of top execs like CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg.
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In August, Facebook's top communications executive, Rachel Whetstone, also saw the writing on the wall and headed over to the lucrative and relatively calm confines of Netflix.
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Uber also recently lost President Jeff Jones, VP of Communications and Policy Rachel Whetstone, VP of Product Ed Baker and SVP of Engineering Amit Singhal, among others.
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At Uber, Plouffe was replaced as the head of policy and communications less than a year after joining the company by Google's former comms boss Rachel Whetstone.
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Here is Kalanick's entire email: Team - I wanted to let you know that Rachel Whetstone, who heads up policy and communications globally, has decided to leave Uber.
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Update: This post was updated to include the names and descriptions of additional former Uber employees who left or were laid off after Rachel Whetstone took over.
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" The source added that Whetstone is "very good at seeing how a company is viewed by the outside world, and not kind of drinking company Kool-Aid.
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Former Uber Southeast Asia executive Eric Alexander this week sued former Uber communications chief Rachel Whetstone (soon joining Netflix) for allegedly breaching a two-way non-disparagement agreement.
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Uber's Kalanick was involved in an incident where he shouted at an Uber driver, and more recently, the company's head of communications Rachel Whetstone is leaving the company.
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Rachel Whetstone headed Uber's communications and public policy team until she resigned in April, amid a mass shake-up that also prompted the resignation of CEO Travis Kalanick.
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Now every week, Mr. Hilton flies from the home he shares with his high-profile tech executive wife, Rachel Whetstone, in Silicon Valley's billionaire enclave of Atherton, Calif.
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A Franklin County grand jury indicted seven people who worked as nurses in 2017 at Whetstone Gardens and Care Center in Columbus, Yost said in a news conference.
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Read More Uber IPO uber-unlikely: CEO Kalanick But Whetstone followed that hiring spree by gutting much of Uber's existing policy team — a process that is still continuing today.
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Jill Hazelbaker: Was poached from Snapchat, but served as the senior director of communications and public policy at Google for more than five years prior to that under Whetstone.
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While Uber is mired in controversy on several fronts, the company's high-profile head of communications and policy, Rachel Whetstone, is departing her "always-on" job after two years.
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You try a sharper blade, two hours hunched over the whetstone, and, rid of the sound of his voice, for a day you hear nothing until they grow back.
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She told authorities she was sleeping on a friend's couch after drinking at a party when she woke to find Patrick Whetstone assaulting her, The Des Moines Register reports.
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Rachel Whetstone, the company's head of comms, resigned, as did the company's head of mapping Brian McClendon and one of the company's former top self-driving executives Raffi Krikorian.
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" Rachel Whetstone, then Uber's head of policy and communications, "suggested they hire former US Attorney General Eric Holder [to look into allegations of sexual harassment and other workplace issues].
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When Mr. Hilton landed in Silicon Valley, he was known locally as the eccentric husband of Ms. Whetstone, who later left Google for Uber's top communications and policy job.
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Whetstone said that even when a love addict is in a relationship with the person they are obsessed with, they are never secure in their trust for the partner.
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One of the primary external causes of love addiction, according to Whetstone, is something called "mother hunger" — a desire for an unconditionally-loving mother that was absent in childhood.
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That said, Uber has high-level female executives: Salle Yoo, their general counsel; the head of communications, Rachel Whetstone; Rachel Holt, who heads up all of U.S. and Canada.
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Just before she came to Facebook, Whetstone served as head of communications and public policy for Uber, where she clashed with CEO and founder Travis Kalanick, who was later ousted.
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Before Uber, Whetstone was head of communications and policy at Google, where she worked for a decade and oversaw a nonstop barrage of PR crises — including some highly personal ones.
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Recode's Kara Swisher has obtained an internal company email in which Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced the departure of Rachel Whetstone, the company's head of global public policy and communications.
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"I am incredibly proud of the team that we've built — and that just as when I left Google, a strong and brilliant woman will be taking my place," Whetstone wrote.
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She's part of a wave of executives, including senior vice president of engineering Amit Singhal and senior vice president of communications Rachel Whetstone, heading for the exits in recent months.
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I was among that sodality of readers who didn't cotton to "The English Patient," finding it merely moody, murky and lightly pretentious, a tone poem in search of a whetstone.
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Rachel Whetstone, who was a senior executive at Uber until April, is married to Steve Hilton, a close friend of, and once an adviser to, former Prime Minister David Cameron.
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Hilton — former adviser to British Prime Minister David Cameron and husband of Rachel Whetstone, Uber's former director of communications — wants to make it easier for underrepresented outsiders to run for office.
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Ms. Whetstone steered the company through several recent firestorms, including a campaign urging people to delete the Uber app and a former engineer's report of harassment, which prompted an internal investigation.
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Less than a year after she was hired to replace Obama veteran David Plouffe, it has become clear that Whetstone didn't get to be that powerful by playing nice all the time.
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So, in an effort to become rich, I took a page out of the book of these self-made millionaires and decided to create my own whetstone to sharpen my own ax.
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The company already has a number of women in top jobs, including the head of communications and policy, Rachel Whetstone, the head of HR, Liane Hornsey, and its general counsel, Salle Yoo.
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Why it matters: Whetstone is only the latest Uber exec to leave the company in the last several weeks amid a string of controversies including an investigation into sexual harassment and sexism allegations.
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"It's not like we called them from central casting," she added, noting that Holt, Hornsey and Whetstone really do run significant aspects of the day-to-day business at the ride-hailing company.
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Given the contentious relationship between the parties, upon her severance from Uber, Ms. Whetstone took the unusual step of insisting on a reciprocal non-disparagement clause that specifically referenced Mr. Alexander by name.
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Ahead of one in Las Vegas, when Uber had 4,000 people going, then head of policy and communications Rachel Whetstone told staffers to be discreet and also to be respectful to hotel staff.
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Whetstone also has a witty side to her hard-charging efforts, such as when she wrote a blog post titled "Really, Rupert?" to strike back at a Wall Street Journal editorial about Google's power.
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Jill Hazelbaker: Hazelbaker joined Uber in 2015 from Snapchat originally as the vice president of policy and communications but took over as the senior vice president when Rachel Whetstone stepped down earlier this year.
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"I wanted to let you know that Rachel Whetstone, who heads up policy and communications globally, has decided to leave Uber," Travis Kalanick, the company's CEO, wrote in an internal email obtained by Recode.
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"I am incredibly proud of the team that we've built — and that just as when I left Google, a strong and brilliant woman will be taking my place," Ms. Whetstone said in a statement.
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Chief Uber spokesperson Rachel Whetstone opened the call by saying that "our company has been heartbroken by this senseless violence," and then introducing Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan, who was poached from Facebook last year.
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"I knew we were going to ask where things came from, and that was going to be the point of view we brought into conversations about food," he said of his new quarterly magazine, Whetstone.
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Almost immediately after Whetstone joined Uber, the company's existing policy and communications team that worked under Plouffe and Hourdajian was gutted to make room for a number of former Google employees, as Recode previously reported.
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Whetstone was a divisive figure within the communications team, according to Wired, and she had close access to Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, with whom she traveled and joined for important meetings.
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Whetstone is known for her assertive style (consider her GIF-y retort to Rupert Murdoch), while Google's recent moves, including the appointment of a former Obama adviser as its policy chief, signal a less combative approach.
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Whetstone is known for her assertive style (consider her GIF-y retort to Rupert Murdoch), while Google's recent moves, including the appointment of a former Obama advisor at its policy chief, signal a less combative approach.
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"I am incredibly proud of the team that we've built — and that just as when I left Google, a strong and brilliant woman will be taking my place," Whetstone said in a statement provided by Uber.
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PR changes: His team was recently restructured, with VP of communications Caryn Marooney running product communications, while newcomer Rachel Whetstone (and longtime Google corporate communications chief and former Uber communications head) is taking over corporate communications.
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"I am incredibly proud of the team that we've built — and that just as when I left Google, a strong and brilliant woman will be taking my place," Whetstone said in a statement to The Hill.
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Becky Whetstone, a relationship therapist and love addiction specialist, told Insider that she suspects Goldberg may have love addiction because of his compulsive need to be unconditionally loved by the women he pursues at all costs.
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Whetstone said that love addiction relies on a pattern of behavior, so even if love addicts break up with the person they were initially addicted to, they typically move on very quickly to their next partner.
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Longtime VP of Communications Caryn Marooney split her job running all of Facebook's communications, keeping the product communications responsibilities and giving corporate comms to Rachel Whetstone, another former Googler and, more recently, head of comms at Uber.
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Word of the Day verb: sharpen with a hone verb: refine or make more perfect or effective noun: a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors _________ The word hone has appeared 74 times on nytimes.
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Caryn Marooney, who has been running the day-to-day operations for all Facebook communications over the past two years, is handing over some of her responsibilities to PR veteran Rachel Whetstone, who joined Facebook last summer.
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Around the same time, Uber's vice president of mapping Brian McClendon left; self-driving director Raffi Krikorian departed; vice president of product and growth Ed Baker said goodbye, and the company's head of communications Rachel Whetstone signed off.
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The post, a punchy number written by former policy chief Rachel Whetstone, noted that Google's visits to the White House addressed a wide range of issues, including patent reform, self-driving cars and technical assistance with the Healthcare.
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Some of these exits were voluntary (like PR chief Rachel Whetstone) and others were not (like Asia-Pacific exec Eric Alexander, who reportedly obtained the medical records of an Indian Uber passenger who was raped by her driver).
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An emergency meeting was convened, during which Kalanick and the most senior women at the company—Hornsey; Rachel Holt, Uber's head of North America; and Rachel Whetstone, the head of public and government relations—discussed what to do.
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Kalanick, along with Rachel Whetstone, Uber's head of comms at the time, Rachel Holt, the company's general manager of U.S. and Canada, former Uber president Jeff Jones and others agreed that he should meet with Kamel to apologize.
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" Whetstone echoed Kalanick's upbeat tone in her statement sent by Uber: "I am incredibly proud of the team that we've built—and that just as when I left Google, a strong and brilliant woman will be taking my place.
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A string of high-level executive departures – including company president Jeff Jones last month and top communications chief Rachel Whetstone this week – has centralized even more authority with Kalanick and raised questions about the staying power of his deputies.
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Before Zuckerberg headed to the microphone, Whetstone supplied him with a list of rough talking points, including one that inexplicably violated the first rule of American civic discourse: Don't invoke the Holocaust while trying to make a nuanced point.
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Most notably, a few months after Whetstone took over at Uber, two of the startup's recent marquee hires — Matt McKenna, a former spokesperson to President Bill Clinton, and Lane Kasselman, Uber's communication lead for the Americas — left the company.
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Love addicts who act out their addiction in obsession will fixate on the person they are addicted to, which can manifest in some dangerous behavior"A lot of these abusive men are love addicts with mental disorders," Whetstone said.
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But standing in the section of the room cordoned off for journalists, I watched David Plouffe — who had been replaced by Whetstone as policy and comms head by that time — mouth along the words to parts of Kalanick's speech.
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Rachel Whetstone, who recently left her job as top public relations and policy exec at Uber, is joining the communications team at Facebook in a newly created role as VP of comms of its WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger products.
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There's no word on any financial demands, though Recode claims the letter includes a draft of a wrongful termination lawsuit, individually naming former Uber PR head, Rachel Whetstone, and Asia-Pacific Public Affairs head, Amy Kunrojpanya, as defendants alongside Uber.
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In the meantime, Facebook has Marooney and Whetstone running the communications team, and VP of Global Public Policy Joel Kaplan, who was also in the congressional testimonies and by Zuckerberg's side in Brussels last month, to run the policy side.
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He and other executives — including Uber's now Senior Vice President of Communications Jill Hazelbaker; Rachel Whetstone, the SVP of policy and comms at the time; Holt; Jeff Jones, the former president; and others — agreed he should meet with Kamel to apologize.
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"The new democracy in media is that if you have a flagship product and grow a following around that, you're able to leverage it into more ambitious, larger projects," said Mr. Satterfield, who aims to expand Whetstone into video production.
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Facebook said at the time of Schrage's departure that it would not hire an internal candidate for the job and many had wondered at the time whether Whetstone had been passed over — although others said she did not want it in any case.
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Uber held a special press call on Tuesday, hosted by board member Arianna Huffington and staffed with three of its highest ranking female staff, including North American operations lead Rachel Holt, Chief HR officer Liane Hornsey and company comms lead Rachel Whetstone.
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"I totally get how bizarre it sounds," said Caryn Marooney, Facebook's VP of communications, who has been at the company since 2011 and just split her role leading the comms team as part of the recent reorg with another executive, Rachel Whetstone.
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" Uber confirmed the departure and when I pinged Whetstone for comment, she sent me this statement: "I am incredibly proud of the team that we've built — and that just as when I left Google, a strong and brilliant woman will be taking my place.
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" Uber confirmed the departure, and when I pinged Whetstone for comment, she sent me this statement: "I am incredibly proud of the team that we've built — and that just as when I left Google, a strong and brilliant woman will be taking my place.
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Almost immediately after joining Uber, Whetstone turned toward her old shop, Google, as well as a few other Silicon Valley companies like Square, to fill out the policy roster for the ride-hailing juggernaut as it continued to mount political battles across the globe.
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What we're hearing: Rachel Whetstone, a former Google and Uber executive who Facebook just promoted to lead corporate communications, is seen as a leading candidate to take over Schrage's job, or at least to gain more authority following his departure, according to multiple sources.
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Those named in the letter, which includes a draft of a possible lawsuit, include former Uber public policy and comms head Rachel Whetstone, current head Jill Hazelbaker, current HR head Liane Hornsey, former legal head Salle Yoo and Asia Pacific comms head Amy Kunrojpanya.
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Shortly after, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick hired former Google communications head Rachel Whetstone to replace Plouffe, which was a little less than a year after Plouffe began his tenure and Hourdajian's title was changed from head of global communications to director of corporate communications.
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Here are some of the key takeaways from the report: Facebook's PR team, under the direction of former Uber communications SVP Rachel Whetstone, was torn over the decision of how to respond to The Guardian and New York Times' reporting on Cambridge Analytica, according to Wired.
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That includes complaints about everything from a memo sent by Hornsey to Uber staff about the "sickening" actions in India — which seems dead accurate to me — to unsupported allegations that Yoo ordered him to impede the rape investigation, to Whetstone and Hazelbaker saying he stole the files.
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What Uber lacks, however, is much of a Washington, D.C.-focused staff, following the departure of a number of its policy-minded employees — including Rachel Whetstone, who shaped the company's political strategy while running communications, and Niki Christoff, the leader of Uber's office in the nation's capital.
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There was its vice president of product Ed Baker, the president of the company Jeff Jones, the vice president of engineering Amit Singhal, the head of the policy and communications team Rachel Whetstone, the head of mapping Brian McClendon and other top self-driving engineers like Raffi Krikorian.
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The press conference, hosted by board member Arianna Huffington and including head of HR Liane Hornsey, US & Canada business lead Rachel Holt and Uber head of communications Rachel Whetstone, also saw Uber share some details about the business impact of its string of bad news from early in 2017.
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On Thursday, Eric Alexander, an executive who was fired as news reports emerged that he obtained access to a rape victim's medical records, filed a lawsuit against Rachel Whetstone, a well-known and powerful PR and public policy pro who was Uber's PR boss at the time he was let go.
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Those who have left Uber in recent times have included the VP of maps and business platform Brian McClendon, president Jeff Jones, AI lead Gary Marcus, communications SVP Rachel Whetstone, VP of global vehicle programs Sherif Marakby, VP of product Ed Baker, SVP of engineering Amit Singhal and self-driving car head Anthony Levandowski.
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How, with the techlash, and perhaps — I'm going to preface it, your wife has worked for every tech company in America right now, Rachel Whetstone — but separate from that, how do you look at what's happening with those, and where do you see ... is it part of the policy, to regulate some of this?
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Kalanick's absence on the call was explained using the COO search process at one point, as Whetstone later answered a press question as to his whereabouts by saying that he was busy with the COO interview process, as was board member and investor Bill Gurley, who is leading the board subcommittee responsible for the executive search.
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Accusharp Knife Sharpener, $9.99, available at Bed Bath & BeyondI've never really gotten good with a whetstone stone or a honing rod, and despite the abounding confidence of others who use these tools, I am of the mind that it takes nothing short of a year's apprenticeship to really do a blade justice with one of these devices.
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Sure, you can roll out cookie dough with a wine bottle, but a well-made rolling pin makes the job far easier (and costs about the same as a bottle of wine.) The Whetstone Woodenware 23-inch pin we recommend is an all-purpose rolling pin, as you might expect of a tool that evolved in France's lavish patisseries.
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This is where the disgusting ruling elite incestuousness argument comes from, that I rail against in so much of what I say, because in that group of us working there in 1990 there was David Cameron who became prime minister, George Osborne who became the treasury secretary, Edward Llewellyn who became the prime minister's chief of staff, Rachel Whetstone who is now my wife.
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And my guess is that there will be some sort of more global — and I'm just guessing here, this is not based on conversations with Travis or Rachel [Whetstone] or anyone — but some sort of global solution on this that both helps regulators have some of the certainty they want, safety, but does it in a way ... I think part of the industry's argument is the method you want is wildly inefficient and not that good.
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