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Expedia Director (CEO of UBER) sold $13.20m in shares-Aug 1
Dara Khosrowshahi is an Iranian-American businessman and the chief executive officer of Uber.
Khosrowshahi was previously CEO of Expedia Group, a company that owns several travel fare aggregators.
He is also a member of the board of directors of BET.com, Hotels.com, and The New York Times Company.
Khosrowshahi is on the list of "Prominent Iranian-Americans" published by the Embassy of the United States, Tehran.
Khosrowshahi was born in 1969 in Iran into a wealthy family and grew up in a mansion on the family compound. He is the youngest of the 3 children of Lili and Asghar (Gary) Khosrowshahi.
His family founded the Alborz Investment Company, a diversified conglomerate involved in pharmaceuticals, chemicals, food, distribution, packaging, trading, and services.
In 1978, just before the Iranian Revolution, his family was targeted for its wealth and his mother decided to leave everything behind and flee the country.
Their company was later nationalized. His family first fled to southern France. They were planning to come back Iran if revolution ends, but that didn't happen in near future.
They were then immigrated to the United States, moving in with one of his uncles who lived in Tarrytown, New York.
In 1982, when Khosrowshahi was 13 years old, his father went to Iran to care for his grandfather.
His father was not allowed to leave Iran for 6 years and therefore Khosrowshahi spent his teenage years without seeing his father.[8][5] In 1987, he graduated from the Hackley School, a private university-preparatory school in Tarrytown.
In 1991, he graduated with a B.A. in biotechnology engineering from Brown University, where he was a member of the social fraternity Sigma Chi.
In 1991, Khosrowshahi joined Allen & Company, an investment bank, as an analyst.
In 1998, he left Allen & Company to work for one of his former clients at the bank, Barry Diller, first at Diller's USA Networks, where he held the positions of senior vice president for strategic planning and then president, and later as chief financial officer of IAC, another company controlled by Diller.
In 2001, IAC purchased Expedia, and in August 2005, Khosrowshahi became CEO of Expedia.
Ten years later, in 2015, Expedia gave him $90 million in stock options as part of a long-term employment agreement, conditioned on him staying with the company until 2020.[12]
In 2016, he was one of the highest paid CEOs in the United States. During his tenure as CEO of Expedia, "the gross value of its hotel and other travel bookings more than quadrupled and its pre-tax earnings more than doubled." Under Khosrowshahi,
Expedia extended its presence to more than 60 countries and acquired Travelocity, Orbitz, and HomeAway.[14]
In August 2017, Khosrowshahi became the CEO of Uber, succeeding founder Travis Kalanick.[15] He forfeited his un-vested stock options of Expedia, then worth $184 million, but Uber reportedly paid him over $200 million to take the CEO position. He also serves on Uber's board of directors.
In June 2013, he received a Pacific Northwest Entrepreneur of the Year award from Ernst & Young.
In May 2019, Khosrowshahi led Uber in their initial public offering, which he addressed with employees in a company-wide letter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dara_Khosrowshahi
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It's reported under their name so if the intention is/was to pay off a fine there are many other ways to do this. It's listed under expedia and as a "director". Only when the name is looked up are the solid connections to who this is come out. With where this one has worked it makes it very swampy, apparently we have another blind baker.
the posts previously had nothing but "this is a Q"….and it meant nothing. The numbers add up so why not make it notable, remember they are not endorsements. If it's bullshit so be it. But as mentioned it just had "this is a Q" and was quite the stretch.