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HN policy has always been to leave the title intact.

And I, for one, find his affiliation with Uber to be of particular interest given Susan Fowler's story.

Not true. It is permitted to neutralize a clickbait title if the story is otherwise worthy.

Without looking at Crunchbase, please name one other investment of Shervin Pishevar that has the cultural reach of Uber. I suspect a randomly selected person would not be able to do so. And Uber has a well documented history of hostile or discriminatory behavior that hews close to the article's topic.

I, like most people, didn't even recognize the name Shervin Pishevar. Of course I do recognize Uber, so putting Uber in the title when the story is not about Uber is clickbait.

Keeping or removing Uber is a complex decision:

He's a little bit more than merely an Uber investor. Quoting: "He is a strategic advisor to Uber, and served as a board advisor to the company from 2011–2015." [1]

He also invested in many more companies than merely Uber. [1]

Therefore a case can be made for both keeping Uber as well as removing Uber from the title.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shervin_Pishevar

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