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Quote from BI "It's the first known investment by the kingdom since the murder of the American journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year."

Not something I'd want myself or my company to be associated with. As usual, I suppose it shows what's really important to these people. $$$

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Whose reputation will it hurt more? The Saudi's or Kalanick's?

The Saudi's rep is already poison. This news hurts Kalanick's. He may be awful, but he hasn't had any journalists tortured and beheaded.

No he just harasses rape survivors and calls them liars.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/15/rape-victim-files-new-lawsui...

Said executive(not Travis) didn't publicly call her a liar. He proposed a theory in private and so that they could do some fact checking. That's called not being played for a fool

Pulling a medical file as part of the fact check was a gross violation of privacy however.

That was an executive who Kalanick fired because of what they did.

They were fired three years after "what they did," and they included Kalanick in the original communications so it seems more that they were fired upon being publicly caught.

Neither. In the end money wins.

They're pot and kettle. I don't think it matters much in the long run who the soot lands on.

Well lots of people take money that can be traced back to China and Russia. It’s not like they don’t carry out HR violations. People just like to signal, bug in the end it’s always about money. Look at the Koch brothers, their main principle is how do we make more money, not what are good causes.

I am not sure why those two events are relevant. It is like saying WeWork IPO was the first one to fail after Trump's Ukraine comments were revealed.

Saudi Arabia just like United States engages in lot of state sponsored violence against all sort of innocent people. HN itself has hundreds of stories where USA harassed and threatned in some cases killed journalists and other innocent individuals. They would have killed Snowden if they could.

None of that should matter to those who take federal funding for whatever other reasons.

The way I see it, it it better for Saudi Money to go into scammy tech startups than another widow maker jet from Lockheed Martin.

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