Mark Macgann, 52, a career lobbyist who works for Uber between 2014 and 2016, has revealed himself as a whistleblower who provides 124,000 company records which are Uber files.
Internal email cache, text messages, and documents, which are shared by guardians with international consortiums of investigative journalists (ICIJ) and media partners throughout the world including Indian Express, show how the start-ups that rise to global to global behemoth by utilizing technology, work around the law, and uses an aggressive lobby with the government during its dramatic expansion period.
I was hired to lead a team of people to develop and implement our strategy to lobby the government throughout Europe, throughout Africa, throughout the Middle East, so that we can enter the market and grow, although in most cases the rules that do not allow Uber to operate.
The spell that is repeated by people from one office to another is a mantra from above, so don’t ask permission, just launch, hurry, ask the driver, exit, do marketing and quickly people will wake up and see how great the uber is.
It has never happened before in my career to have easy access to senior government members … Uber at that time in the technology world, maybe in the wider business world, the hottest ticket in the city and to a certain extent, both on the investor side and too
Yes, I am willing. And I am partially responsible, and that’s my motivation to do what I do in becoming a whistleblower … This is about correcting mistakes. This is about doing the right thing.
See, I have what I do, but if it turns out what I try to imagine to persuade the government, ministers, prime ministers, presidents and drivers, it turns out to be very bad, very wrong and untrue, then my incumbent to return and say, ‘I thought we made a mistake. ‘
