Uber CEO’s Message in His IPO Letter: ‘I Won’t Be Perfect’

Dara KhosrowshahiPhotographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg
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Founder letters have become an essential part of the initial stock pitch from high-profile technology companies. “Google is not a conventional company,” the founders wrote in their introduction in 2004. “Facebook was not originally created to be a company,” Mark Zuckerberg wrote in his.

Uber Technologies Inc., which filed paperwork Thursday for what could be among the 10 biggest U.S. IPOs of all time, had a different message from someone who wasn’t around until much later in the company’s life.