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"content": "\u003cp>If there was one misstep that doomed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2017/04/13/crispr-patent-uc-appeal/\">long and bitter fight\u003c/a> by the University of California to wrest key CRISPR patents from the Broad Institute, it was star UC Berkeley scientist Jennifer Doudna’s habit of being scientifically cautious, realistic, and averse to overpromising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A biochemist who co-led a breakthrough \u003ca href=\"http://science.sciencemag.org/content/337/6096/816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2012 study\u003c/a> of CRISPR-Cas9, Doudna repeatedly emphasized in interviews the challenges of repurposing the molecular system, which bacteria use to fend off viruses, to edit human genomes. The U.S. patent office, in a February \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/15/crispr-patent-ruling/\">ruling\u003c/a> that let the Broad keep its CRISPR patents (for now), relied heavily on those statements — “We weren’t sure if CRISPR/Cas9 would work in … animal cells,” for example — to conclude that when scientists at the Broad \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3795411/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CRISPR’d human cells\u003c/a> in 2013, it was a non-obvious advance and therefore deserving of patents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">So it’s striking that the careful, measured Doudna who said CRISPR’ing human cells and thereby curing devastating diseases would be a challenge is hardly in evidence in “A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution,” the new book she co-authored with her former student Samuel Sternberg. It went on sale last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">This Doudna doesn’t hold back. We are “on the cusp of a new age in genetic engineering and biological mastery,” she and Sternberg write, dangling the prospect of “life-changing treatments” and “lifesaving cures.” She says she is “not kidding” that CRISPR could bring about “woolly mammoths, winged lizards, and unicorns. … It won’t be long before CRISPR allows us to bend nature to our will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">The hyperbole contrasts with CRISPR’s stumbles, including altering parts of genomes (in lab studies, not patients yet) it wasn’t supposed to. “I don’t think we’ll have a version of CRISPR that’s 100 percent perfect, so it comes down to a risk-benefit analysis,” Sternberg, a biochemist at \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2016/06/22/rachel-haurwitz-crispr-caribou/\">Caribou Biosciences\u003c/a> (which Doudna co-founded), said in an interview. “There has been phenomenal progress in understanding off-target effects; I think it’s a solvable problem. … We have every reason to be optimistic but I hope we avoided overhyping and didn’t give the impression that there would be windfall of cures in the next couple of years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not a tell-all. The farthest Doudna goes in addressing the patent fight — a “disheartening twist” — is to say that because of such rivalries she experienced “the gamut of human relationships, from deep friendships to disturbing betrayals.” She doesn’t name the betrayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An early \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v546/n7656/full/546030a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">review\u003c/a> chastised Doudna for presenting herself as “so flawless” the book “seems more concealing than revealing,” not “insightful [and] candid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what she does choose to reveal is fascinating, especially about her collaboration with Emmanuelle Charpentier. The two are so closely linked that all the prizes they’ve won for CRISPR, they’ve won together; among CRISPR watchers “Doudna and Charpentier” is virtually a macro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the book’s account of their breakthrough experiment showing that CRISPR could be programmed to edit a precise spot in a genome leaves a different impression. We read that “Martin [Jinek, Doudna’s postdoctoral fellow] showed” and “Martin labored tirelessly,” “Martin and I brainstormed” and “designed an experiment,” and when “Martin walked me through the data,” Doudna knew “we’d done it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That work was described in the 2012 paper, which is widely recognized — by prize committees, the European Patent Office, and many scientists — as the Bastille moment for the CRISPR revolution. It identified the three crucial molecules in the CRISPR system — one to cut, one to guide the cutting enzyme to its target DNA, one to activate the cutting enzyme — that produced a programmable DNA-cutting machine. “We had built the means to rewrite the code of life,” Doudna and Sternberg write. “Nothing after that would ever be the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Doudna and her collaborators didn’t actually change genomes in cells — their CRISPR molecules altered cell-free DNA in test tubes — that was an obvious next step. How difficult a next step was the core dispute in the patent fight and one that she repeatedly cautioned was no slam dunk. But “Crack in Creation” says that doing so “was immediately clear to us,” and “there were good reasons to expect success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That contrasts with her cautious statements, cited by the patent office, at the time. When \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2015/11/06/hollywood-inspired-scientist-rewrite-code-life/\">Feng Zhang\u003c/a> of the Broad Institute and \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2017/06/08/george-church-narcolepsy/\">George Church\u003c/a> of Harvard used CRISPR to edit genes, it was “just as we had proposed in 2012,” according to the book. She was elated that her 2012 work “inspired others to pursue a line of experimentation similar to our own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doudna became a public scientist — she’s given a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_doudna_we_can_now_edit_our_dna_but_let_s_do_it_wisely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TED talk\u003c/a> and will appear on “Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly” — because of her research, but also because she was instrumental in getting the scientific community to focus on ethical issues it raises, especially about editing embryos in a way that would be inherited by future generations (“germline” editing). She writes that she had nightmares that a man asking her about this was Hitler and that she “began to feel a bit like Dr. Frankenstein.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her own moral journey is intriguing. She feels germline editing can be safe, and the “it’s unnatural!” argument “doesn’t carry much weight with me anymore,” she writes. “It seems to me that we’d be justified in using” CRISPR to eliminate genes that cause untold suffering, such as those for Huntington’s disease. “When I think about the pain that genetic diseases cause families, the stakes are simply too high to exclude the possibility of eventually using germline editing,” as an expert panel also \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/14/national-academy-crispr-report/\">concluded\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doudna acknowledges, however, that “it’s difficult to see how we’d do it equitably,” especially when the line between therapy and enhancement is paper thin: Some families might purchase a genetic legacy that gives them less need for sleep, greater endurance, extra-strong bones, leaner or larger muscles, lower risk of diabetes and Alzheimer’s, even less armpit odor — while other families muddle through with the genes nature gave them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That threatens to “transcribe our societies’ financial inequality into our genetic code,” Doudna writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her solution? “Redoubl[ing] our commitment to building a society in which all humans are respected and treated equally, regardless of their genetic makeup.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update, June 14: Doudna, whose office cancelled an interview with STAT before this story ran, said in an email that “positioning Martin Jinek’s role to your readers as above the work of Emmanuelle Charpentier is incorrect and unfair. 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"content": "\u003cp>In his professional life, Abhishek Gattani started a company that specialized in predicting behavior patterns in people using automated intelligence and other machine learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in his personal life, Gattani repeatedly engaged in abusive and erratic behavior towards his wife, former Apple software engineer Neha Rastogi, according to digital recordings and witness accounts that were part of criminal proceedings against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former CEO of Cuberon (he was fired earlier this year after reports of his alleged abuse were made public), Gattani will serve 13 days in jail -- a sentence that victim rights advocates describe as far too lenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Gattani was sentenced by a Palo Alto judge to 30 days in jail in accordance to a plea agreement reached with the Santa Clara District Attorney's office. After counting time served and other factors, Gattani will spend 13 nights in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the street from the courthouse, about a dozen victims’ rights advocates gathered to show their support for Rastogi and draw attention to the wider issue of domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Domestic violence isn’t a problem with just one culture,” said Karla Nema of San Jose. She carried a sign that said, “Real Men Don’t Hit Women,” with a drawing of a woman whose face was covered with cuts and bruises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court documents and audio recordings indicate that Gattani bullied, berated and battered his wife for several years. She made audio recordings of her husband slapping her as he asked her questions about a software bug. 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Rastogi's husband Abhishek Gattani accepted a modified plea deal on June 15. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The audio surfaced after Gattani made the plea agreement with Santa Clara prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angry at what she felt was a light sentence, Rastogi made the recordings of her abuse public, and soon they were \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/silicon-valley-ceo-pleads-no-contest-to-abusing-his-wifeand-is-offered-a-deal-for-less-than-30-days-in-jail\" target=\"_blank\">published by The Daily Beast\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, there's been a barrage of criticism towards Santa Clara District Attorney Jeffrey Rosen -- that he gave Gattani a soft deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the verdict -- such as Michele Dauber of Stanford -- note this deal was reached in the same courthouse where convicted sexual batterer Brock Turner was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/02/brock-turner-released-from-jail-after-three-months/\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced to what many consider a lenient punishment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are real questions about why this particular plea bargain was struck,” said Dauber, a Stanford Law professor and victims' rights advocate. “It seems to indicate that the process is being driven by Mr. Gattani. We need to put victims first, and we need to treat domestic violence like the serious crime it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The assistant district attorney who prosecuted the case refuted those criticisms, saying that the victim's statements would make the case difficult to try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a high standard of proof,\" Santa Clara County prosecutor Brian Welch said. \"We have to ask ourselves, 'What's a defense attorney going to do?'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11513109\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-3-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-3-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Papiha Nandy, an advocate for victims of domestic abuse, at a rally outside of the Palo Alto Courthouse in support of Neha Rastogi. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Welch wrote a memo to the court justifying the sentencing agreement after Rastogi went public with her tapes. He told KQED that the inconsistencies in Rastogi's statements to authorities over the years would make it easy for the defense to create reasonable doubt in the minds of jury members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, at one point a mailman saw Gattani repeatedly punch Rastogi in the ribs as the couple walked out of their house. At first, the battered wife acknowledged Gattani's abuse, confirming it to police. Later -- after Gattani returned to the home -- Rastogi recanted that claim, saying her husband was striking her to help \"alleviate her acid reflux,\" according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in the memo, Welch notes that Rastogi withdrew more than $943,600 from the couple's bank account shortly before going to authorities to report the abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ms. Rastogi and (Gattani) are embroiled in a contentious divorce and custody battle, which gives her motive to embellish the domestic violence and its impact on their daughter,\" Welch wrote in the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11513108\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicol Hammond of San Jose was at a rally outside of the Palo Alto Courthouse in support of Neha Rastogi. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I stand by the memo,\" Welch told KQED. \"If I wrote it more generically, the court would not be in the position to evaluate that argument. I agree that the tapes are disturbing. The recording influenced us to initially pursue this as a felony. But we had to take into consideration a host of factors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, Dauber -- who criticized the Santa Clara justice system after the Brock Turner case -- said the memo made it impossible for the judge to reconsider the sentencing agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don't have to lay everything out and do the defense's job for them,\" Dauber said. \"I'm not saying that a better outcome would have come in court. I am saying we'll never know, because after that memo, what else could the judge do? (Gattani's) defense was laid out by the D.A.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In his professional life, Abhishek Gattani started a company that specialized in predicting behavior patterns in people using automated intelligence and other machine learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in his personal life, Gattani repeatedly engaged in abusive and erratic behavior towards his wife, former Apple software engineer Neha Rastogi, according to digital recordings and witness accounts that were part of criminal proceedings against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former CEO of Cuberon (he was fired earlier this year after reports of his alleged abuse were made public), Gattani will serve 13 days in jail -- a sentence that victim rights advocates describe as far too lenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Gattani was sentenced by a Palo Alto judge to 30 days in jail in accordance to a plea agreement reached with the Santa Clara District Attorney's office. After counting time served and other factors, Gattani will spend 13 nights in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the street from the courthouse, about a dozen victims’ rights advocates gathered to show their support for Rastogi and draw attention to the wider issue of domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Domestic violence isn’t a problem with just one culture,” said Karla Nema of San Jose. She carried a sign that said, “Real Men Don’t Hit Women,” with a drawing of a woman whose face was covered with cuts and bruises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court documents and audio recordings indicate that Gattani bullied, berated and battered his wife for several years. She made audio recordings of her husband slapping her as he asked her questions about a software bug. Rastogi can be heard begging her husband of 11 years to stop hitting her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11513097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-4-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-4-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-4-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-4-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-4-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-4-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neha Rastogi was photographed leaving the Palo Alto Courthouse after a sentencing hearing in the case against her husband, whom she accused of spousal abuse. Rastogi's husband Abhishek Gattani accepted a modified plea deal on June 15. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The audio surfaced after Gattani made the plea agreement with Santa Clara prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angry at what she felt was a light sentence, Rastogi made the recordings of her abuse public, and soon they were \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/silicon-valley-ceo-pleads-no-contest-to-abusing-his-wifeand-is-offered-a-deal-for-less-than-30-days-in-jail\" target=\"_blank\">published by The Daily Beast\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, there's been a barrage of criticism towards Santa Clara District Attorney Jeffrey Rosen -- that he gave Gattani a soft deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the verdict -- such as Michele Dauber of Stanford -- note this deal was reached in the same courthouse where convicted sexual batterer Brock Turner was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/02/brock-turner-released-from-jail-after-three-months/\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced to what many consider a lenient punishment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are real questions about why this particular plea bargain was struck,” said Dauber, a Stanford Law professor and victims' rights advocate. “It seems to indicate that the process is being driven by Mr. Gattani. We need to put victims first, and we need to treat domestic violence like the serious crime it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The assistant district attorney who prosecuted the case refuted those criticisms, saying that the victim's statements would make the case difficult to try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a high standard of proof,\" Santa Clara County prosecutor Brian Welch said. \"We have to ask ourselves, 'What's a defense attorney going to do?'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11513109\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-3-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-3-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Papiha Nandy, an advocate for victims of domestic abuse, at a rally outside of the Palo Alto Courthouse in support of Neha Rastogi. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Welch wrote a memo to the court justifying the sentencing agreement after Rastogi went public with her tapes. He told KQED that the inconsistencies in Rastogi's statements to authorities over the years would make it easy for the defense to create reasonable doubt in the minds of jury members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, at one point a mailman saw Gattani repeatedly punch Rastogi in the ribs as the couple walked out of their house. At first, the battered wife acknowledged Gattani's abuse, confirming it to police. Later -- after Gattani returned to the home -- Rastogi recanted that claim, saying her husband was striking her to help \"alleviate her acid reflux,\" according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in the memo, Welch notes that Rastogi withdrew more than $943,600 from the couple's bank account shortly before going to authorities to report the abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ms. Rastogi and (Gattani) are embroiled in a contentious divorce and custody battle, which gives her motive to embellish the domestic violence and its impact on their daughter,\" Welch wrote in the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11513108\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/20170615_credit_BertJohnson-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicol Hammond of San Jose was at a rally outside of the Palo Alto Courthouse in support of Neha Rastogi. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I stand by the memo,\" Welch told KQED. \"If I wrote it more generically, the court would not be in the position to evaluate that argument. I agree that the tapes are disturbing. The recording influenced us to initially pursue this as a felony. But we had to take into consideration a host of factors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, Dauber -- who criticized the Santa Clara justice system after the Brock Turner case -- said the memo made it impossible for the judge to reconsider the sentencing agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don't have to lay everything out and do the defense's job for them,\" Dauber said. \"I'm not saying that a better outcome would have come in court. I am saying we'll never know, because after that memo, what else could the judge do? (Gattani's) defense was laid out by the D.A.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nestled among rows of wine grapes, Stone Bridge School is a K-8 independent charter school in Napa County. On a recent afternoon, 28 first-graders sang during their main lesson. They can sing, paint, dance and sew. But what they don’t do — and are discouraged from — is use computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Bindewald, principal at the Waldorf-inspired Stone Bridge School, says their philosophy around technology isn’t a no-tech approach, but a slow-tech one. He says they place an emphasis on hands-on learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the school hasn’t gone cold turkey. By the time students reach sixth, seventh and eighth grade, they start doing reports and the state’s standardized tests online. The school has also developed a cyberethics curriculum to learn things like finding truthful sources online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you walk into a Stone Bridge classroom, you won’t find any gadgets or screens.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It helps the student connect to the physical world in a way that the internet simply can’t.’\u003ccite>Greg Greeson, woodworking instructor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>First-grade teacher Michele Conyers sees the slow-tech benefits firsthand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many other things they can be learning,” she says, “Just even learning to play. It’s not just about collecting facts, but about experiencing things or being with others and learning how to get along together to play a game of basketball or the strange games they come up with sometimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conyers thinks it’s better to learn from a human being in the younger years. And more fun. During the morning I spent at the school, I found students doing a range of engaging activities, from making tunics with needle and thread to crafting spoons with wood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11359092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11359092 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"First grade teacher Michele Conyers teaches watercolor painting to her class at the Waldorf-inspired Stone Bridge School in Napa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First-grade teacher Michele Conyers teaches watercolor painting to her class at the Waldorf-inspired Stone Bridge School in Napa. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Greg Greeson, the school’s woodworking instructor, thinks the school’s internet-free philosophy is vitally important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It helps the student connect to the physical world in a way that the internet simply can’t,” he says. “Sometimes all they will do is sand stuff. That’s the hard part. Understanding that it takes work to get the job done, it’s not a button push or a swipe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushes and swipes aside, are these schools placing kids at a digital disadvantage?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conyers says that question comes up all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually one of the parents asks, ‘How do you move over to high school with all the computer use?’ ” But studies suggest that the Waldorf learning curriculum works, leading to \u003ca href=\"http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224545.1971.9922475?journalCode=vsoc20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">greater creativity\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.journeyschool.net/wp-content/uploads/Waldorf_Graduates_Gerwin_Mitchell.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">critical thinking\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://cie.asu.edu/ojs/index.php/cieatasu/article/view/807\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One study\u003c/a> found eighth-grade test scores to be competitive with peer-alike public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11359093\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11359093\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"First grader Ryan Halstead holds the paintings he is working on in his watercolor class at Stone Bridge School in Napa, CA.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First-grader Ryan Halstead holds the paintings he is working on in his watercolor class at Stone Bridge School in Napa. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We don’t see them shortchanged in anyway,” says principal Bindewald. He asks graduates if the transition to a digital world is difficult, and he finds most of them learned computer skills at home. He points to Stone Bridge graduates who are in technical fields such as engineering or graphic design. “Very few of them talk about any real difficulty making the transition,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most Waldorf schools are private and expensive, Stone Bridge is public and tuition-free, making the slow-tech option more accessible. Bindewald says Stone Bridge is one of about 25 public Waldorf schools in the state, and about 60 nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Technology will make a good school better, but won’t make a bad school good.’\u003ccite>Mark Warschauer, UC Irvine\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>To find out what parents think about all of this, I followed first-grader Ryan Halstead home. I found him and his father, Anthony Halstead, sewing a pillow on Ryan’s new sewing machine. But his brother, Nicolas, sat next to him typing out code. He attends a bilingual school called Napa Valley Language Academy and is currently learning an MIT coding program called Scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mostly in fifth grade now, I learn on the computer and Ryan is knitting and sewing, so it’s different in ways that we learn things,” says Nicolas. “I know that Ryan is eventually going to learn what I’m learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11359106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11359106 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan and Nicolas Halstead work on their homework after school in Napa, CA. Ryan is sewing, while his brother is learning to code.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicolas Halstead (L) and his brother, Ryan, (R) work on their homework after school in Napa. Ryan is sewing, while Nicolas is learning to write code. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Halstead let Ryan choose which school to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We said, ‘Do you wanna go to school with your big brother or do you wanna go to a school where you wanna learn how to sew?’ ” he says. “His interests were different and we wanted him to go to a school that would foster those differences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halstead made it clear that it was a philosophical and financial decision they were able to make. But for many low-income students, internet access is not an option. Principal Leo Gonzalez at the Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School in East L.A. says many of the parents can’t afford the price of connecting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is how the extension goes from school to home and what access our children have as far as doing assignments,” he says. For Gonzalez, many of his students’ families are more concerned about setting the table and paying rent. The internet isn’t going to be a priority if it costs $25 to $30, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11359107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11359107 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Student classrooms still use blackboards and chalk at the Stone Bridge School, a Waldorf-inspired school in Napa, CA. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students still use blackboards and chalk at the Stone Bridge School, which follows the Waldorf model for hands-on teaching. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just as Conyers sees the benefits of Waldorf’s hands-on learning, Gonzalez sees the benefits of technology. Once he introduced Chromebooks downloaded with digital programs such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.mobymax.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moby Max\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.achieve3000.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Achieve 3000\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, state standardized test results shot through the roof. In some cases, his students doubled or tripled their scores in math and English. “That’s astronomical,” he says, “That’s huge.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was able to do this through the \u003ca href=\"http://www.school2home.org/full-2014-15-evaluation-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School2Home \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">program with funds from the California Emerging Technology Fund.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Warschauer, a professor in the Education Department at UC Irvine, thinks computers are important but only if you use them correctly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Technology will make a good school better, but won’t make a bad school good,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warschauer sees the need to develop instructional strategies in and out of school to keep students engaged in positive ways. “If we’re seriously thinking about children developing the scientific skills, the social science research skills, the writing and editing skills they need,” he says, “you can’t really do it without computers and the internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.cetfund.org/files/CETF_Annual_Survey_2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2016 survey\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by the California Emerging Technology Fund found 84 percent of parents interviewed use the internet to help their kids with homework. And among low-income adults that number is 80 percent. Tamara Straus, director of communications at the fund, says the best way to expand home internet access is to fund organizations that provide outreach for low-cost options.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers are currently reviewing AB 1665, which aims to provide high-speed internet to 98 percent of Californians, focusing on low-income and rural areas. Advocates say this will improve academic achievement for schoolkids who don’t have internet access at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the bill passes, we will see more homes with internet service in low-income areas — and more kids with access to it. Except those, of course, going to Waldorf.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many other things they can be learning,” she says, “Just even learning to play. It’s not just about collecting facts, but about experiencing things or being with others and learning how to get along together to play a game of basketball or the strange games they come up with sometimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conyers thinks it’s better to learn from a human being in the younger years. And more fun. During the morning I spent at the school, I found students doing a range of engaging activities, from making tunics with needle and thread to crafting spoons with wood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11359092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11359092 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"First grade teacher Michele Conyers teaches watercolor painting to her class at the Waldorf-inspired Stone Bridge School in Napa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First-grade teacher Michele Conyers teaches watercolor painting to her class at the Waldorf-inspired Stone Bridge School in Napa. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Greg Greeson, the school’s woodworking instructor, thinks the school’s internet-free philosophy is vitally important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It helps the student connect to the physical world in a way that the internet simply can’t,” he says. “Sometimes all they will do is sand stuff. That’s the hard part. Understanding that it takes work to get the job done, it’s not a button push or a swipe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushes and swipes aside, are these schools placing kids at a digital disadvantage?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conyers says that question comes up all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually one of the parents asks, ‘How do you move over to high school with all the computer use?’ ” But studies suggest that the Waldorf learning curriculum works, leading to \u003ca href=\"http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224545.1971.9922475?journalCode=vsoc20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">greater creativity\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.journeyschool.net/wp-content/uploads/Waldorf_Graduates_Gerwin_Mitchell.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">critical thinking\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://cie.asu.edu/ojs/index.php/cieatasu/article/view/807\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One study\u003c/a> found eighth-grade test scores to be competitive with peer-alike public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11359093\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11359093\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"First grader Ryan Halstead holds the paintings he is working on in his watercolor class at Stone Bridge School in Napa, CA.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First-grader Ryan Halstead holds the paintings he is working on in his watercolor class at Stone Bridge School in Napa. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We don’t see them shortchanged in anyway,” says principal Bindewald. He asks graduates if the transition to a digital world is difficult, and he finds most of them learned computer skills at home. He points to Stone Bridge graduates who are in technical fields such as engineering or graphic design. “Very few of them talk about any real difficulty making the transition,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most Waldorf schools are private and expensive, Stone Bridge is public and tuition-free, making the slow-tech option more accessible. Bindewald says Stone Bridge is one of about 25 public Waldorf schools in the state, and about 60 nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Technology will make a good school better, but won’t make a bad school good.’\u003ccite>Mark Warschauer, UC Irvine\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>To find out what parents think about all of this, I followed first-grader Ryan Halstead home. I found him and his father, Anthony Halstead, sewing a pillow on Ryan’s new sewing machine. But his brother, Nicolas, sat next to him typing out code. He attends a bilingual school called Napa Valley Language Academy and is currently learning an MIT coding program called Scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mostly in fifth grade now, I learn on the computer and Ryan is knitting and sewing, so it’s different in ways that we learn things,” says Nicolas. “I know that Ryan is eventually going to learn what I’m learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11359106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11359106 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan and Nicolas Halstead work on their homework after school in Napa, CA. Ryan is sewing, while his brother is learning to code.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicolas Halstead (L) and his brother, Ryan, (R) work on their homework after school in Napa. Ryan is sewing, while Nicolas is learning to write code. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Halstead let Ryan choose which school to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We said, ‘Do you wanna go to school with your big brother or do you wanna go to a school where you wanna learn how to sew?’ ” he says. “His interests were different and we wanted him to go to a school that would foster those differences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halstead made it clear that it was a philosophical and financial decision they were able to make. But for many low-income students, internet access is not an option. Principal Leo Gonzalez at the Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School in East L.A. says many of the parents can’t afford the price of connecting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is how the extension goes from school to home and what access our children have as far as doing assignments,” he says. For Gonzalez, many of his students’ families are more concerned about setting the table and paying rent. The internet isn’t going to be a priority if it costs $25 to $30, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11359107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11359107 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Student classrooms still use blackboards and chalk at the Stone Bridge School, a Waldorf-inspired school in Napa, CA. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students still use blackboards and chalk at the Stone Bridge School, which follows the Waldorf model for hands-on teaching. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just as Conyers sees the benefits of Waldorf’s hands-on learning, Gonzalez sees the benefits of technology. Once he introduced Chromebooks downloaded with digital programs such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.mobymax.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moby Max\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.achieve3000.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Achieve 3000\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, state standardized test results shot through the roof. In some cases, his students doubled or tripled their scores in math and English. “That’s astronomical,” he says, “That’s huge.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was able to do this through the \u003ca href=\"http://www.school2home.org/full-2014-15-evaluation-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School2Home \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">program with funds from the California Emerging Technology Fund.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Warschauer, a professor in the Education Department at UC Irvine, thinks computers are important but only if you use them correctly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Technology will make a good school better, but won’t make a bad school good,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warschauer sees the need to develop instructional strategies in and out of school to keep students engaged in positive ways. “If we’re seriously thinking about children developing the scientific skills, the social science research skills, the writing and editing skills they need,” he says, “you can’t really do it without computers and the internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.cetfund.org/files/CETF_Annual_Survey_2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2016 survey\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by the California Emerging Technology Fund found 84 percent of parents interviewed use the internet to help their kids with homework. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of Silicon Valley’s pioneering internet companies is no more. Yahoo was \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/13/verizon-completes-yahoo-acquisition-marissa-mayer-resigns.html\">officially bought\u003c/a> by Verizon this week. While the Yahoo brand lives on, it will cease to exist as a stand-alone company. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yahoo was founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who met as graduate students at Stanford. That was 23 years ago, which in internet years is more like a century.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Between 1996 and 2000, Yahoo was it. You hear about Google now, you used to hear about Yahoo,” said Jon Brooks, the 109th employee hired at Yahoo. Today, he edits \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/\">KQED’s science blog\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back then, the internet was new to regular folks and it was almost impossible to find websites -- until Yahoo came along. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Our mission was to classify the entire web,” Brooks said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yahoo’s strategy was to compile a list of the world’s most interesting sites. And then organize them into directory of categories, sort of how Craigslist is organized. Unlike Google, which uses computing algorithms to scour the web and assess the quality and relevancy of the sites, Yahoo employed humans to do the task by hand. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'When I think about Yahoo’s place in history, I really think about it as the founding internet company.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Jennifer Dulski, former Yahoo employee\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The way it worked, people would submit their websites to Yahoo.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“And they would come to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/technology/when-yahoo-ruled-the-valley-stories-of-the-original-surfers.html\">surfers\u003c/a>,” Brooks said. “That was on my business card, ‘surfer.’ ”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The web surfer would punch in the url.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Half the time, it was a web designer or someone’s personal \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2009/04/23/yahoo-quietly-pulls-the-plug-on-geocities/\">GeoCities\u003c/a> page devoted, you know, to anime,” Brooks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surfers, many of them former librarians, would determine whether the site was worthy of being on Yahoo's directory. The process could be long and messy. Brooks remembers week-long fights among surfers about how to categorize, say, medieval art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was human intelligence versus computer intelligence, which sounds absolutely ludicrous today,” Brooks said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As more websites came online, the directory would get bigger and more confusing, Brooks said. And then Google came along, which basically made Yahoo’s directory irrelevant. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite that, Brooks said Yahoo helped establish an enduring web ethos: that anyone should be free to express themselves.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean we had a sexuality category that had accounted for every fetish under the sun, but it wasn’t even considered that we wouldn’t categorize that,” said Brooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yahoo helped define the web culture, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/u/jdulski\">Jennifer Dulski\u003c/a>. She was employee 471 at Yahoo. Today she’s the president of \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/\">Change.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I think about Yahoo’s place in history, I really think about it as the founding internet company,” Dulski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dulski joined the company in 1999 and helped launch the internet company's TV ads, which always ended with a yodel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/24DUB3OpoEM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dulski said that yodel, along with its quirky name, branded Yahoo as a portal to this magical place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When you look at the tech companies that exist today, many of them have taken the things Yahoo brought in the first place,” Dulski said.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It set the precedent for quirky names like Google and Snapchat. Plus Yahoo brought that sense of fun -- think office foosball or pingpong tables -- into the workplace, \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Dulski said\u003c/span>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean the work environment was everything that the Valley has become today,” Dulski said. “It reinvented a way of thinking about corporate culture and the idea that you could have a brand and a company that was not just a business but something that was fun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite its groundbreaking status, Yahoo was slow to respond to the rise of Google and the shift to mobile. After more than a decade of trying to recapture its status, Yahoo was sold to Verizon for $4.5 billion. Verizon plans to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/technology/verizon-yahoo-deal-layoffs.html\">lay off about 2,000 workers\u003c/a> at Yahoo and its other sites. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Uber is a mess — the \"bad boy\" ethos shattered, a nervous breakdown in its place. This week, the CEO announced he is taking a sudden leave of absence. A former U.S. attorney general released a brutal audit of the startup's culture. It's a terrifying moment for many investors who want that $70 billion unicorn to make them rich or richer — not implode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is one Uber investor who stands out for how she decided to speak up. It was not very Silicon Valley-like of her, but Freada Kapor Klein wanted to turn the crisis into a teachable moment. And while \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/13/532751641/ubers-travis-kalanick-announces-leave-of-absence-company-adopts-harassment-polic\">this week's events\u003c/a> could lead her to say \"I told you so,\" she has a different takeaway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's rewind a few months. Kapor Klein decided to write an \u003ca href=\"https://shift.newco.co/an-open-letter-to-the-uber-board-and-investors-2dc0c48c3a7\">open letter\u003c/a> to Uber — which she published with her husband — after a young woman shared an \u003ca href=\"https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber\">explosive account\u003c/a> of sexual harassment at Uber headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/532973451/533102658\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein is a venture capitalist, or a VC. That means she makes money by betting on technology startups. Uber is one of those startups. She has committed to \"impact investment\" — businesses that can turn a profit while also making the world a better place. For too many years, she says, critics would question her on Uber, and she stayed silent. She tried to influence the company from the inside, though she didn't see a real will among leadership to change. While \"Silicon Valley prides itself on pattern recognition,\" the letter said, Uber had \"toxic patterns\" that needed to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein thought she was just saying what insiders knew: This is not a one-off. Turns out, her peers didn't like that and wanted her to pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I could imagine that they wouldn't love the Uber letter,\" Kapor Klein said in an interview with NPR in mid-March. \"But then that they would decide the next step they ought to do is go after our high growth, hot startups and try to get them away from us!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11513101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5168-edit_slide-50509cc390e992a3208786f2193a75d5b1a65bc5-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Heckman, an associate at Kapor Capital, speaks with Kapor Klein. She wrote an open letter to Uber after an engineer shared an instance of sexual harassment at the ride-hailing startup. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She's just learned that other VCs are trying to poach one of her hottest investments, and they're citing the Uber letter to do it, basically saying: this investor throws her own people under the bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, it's one thing to go pitch them. It's another to say, 'Get away from Kapor. See, they're going to do this to you,' \" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be counterintuitive, but in Silicon Valley, the land that created tweeting, there is a code of silence among the rich. People are here to make money, not to agitate. She violated that code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she won't back down. She tells me I should call a shortlist of her most powerful peers and demand they respond on the record. \"Go to Sequoia, go to Benchmark, go to Kleiner, go to Accel, go to Andreessen, go to Khosla,\" she says, naming the kings of much-storied Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's sitting inside the Kapor Center for Social Impact — a name that spells out the intent of the place. Kapor Klein and her husband bought this four-story building in central Oakland — what's become the edge of Silicon Valley as tech expands beyond Cupertino, Mountain View and San Francisco — and it houses an investment arm, research and philanthropic projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein is 64 years old, petite with jet black eyes and curly hair to match. She is tense as she recounts the blowback, her folded hands resting on a conference table made of reclaimed wood. Meanwhile, her dog is napping by her feet, sprawled on a gray carpet made of recycled fishing nets. (She designed the building to be green.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dudley's snoring breaks her concentration, and she lets out a laugh. He's a rescue dog, but sometimes she claims he's a therapy dog. \"You can see why. Doesn't he make you feel better?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wakes him up and the two go in search of her husband and business partner, \u003ca href=\"Mitch%20Kapor\">Mitch Kapor\u003c/a>. When they find him, he happens to be meeting with the president of Silicon Valley Bank — who is trying to not get in the middle of the couple's conversation. But Kapor Klein reels him in, telling him about the letter and the response. Greg Becker politely offers his take: \"Yeah, people compete ... any way they can, right? That's — unfortunately it's human nature ... .\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein points to her dog, who is now rubbing his enormous cream coat against the banker's leg, and she teases: \"I thought it was just dogs that did that. Dogs, not humans.\" Her husband ends the conversation by saying: \"It's a dog-eat-dog world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is his way of acting as her buffer — she, the one who pushes; he, the one who moderates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11513102 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kapor Klein talks with her husband, Mitch Kapor, in their shared office space. He founded Lotus, the database company, and is a legend in Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mitch Kapor is a bit of a legend, by the way. In the 1980s he founded Lotus, the famous spreadsheet maker. Some compare him to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pulled Kapor Klein into the tech world when he hired her to fix Lotus' culture in 1984, to make it the most progressive employer in the U.S. Quite the job description. She would lecture her boss about how he carried himself at work, how he should be \"more sensitive\" about his power, how he could make or break an employee's day just with eye contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple didn't get together until years later, when she sought him out for career advice, and his first marriage fell apart. He asked her out on a date. He had a son. She was 43 and didn't have kids. She assumed it was a summer fling and warned him, date two, that she's not \"stepmom material.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out, it wasn't a fling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her life's work is to change the culture of Silicon Valley — a place she feels has gone backward in time. There are \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding\">far fewer women in computer science\u003c/a> today than in the 1980s. Blacks and Latinos are missing, too. Kapor Klein faults the investor class, which holds on to the myth of meritocracy, that they are the hyper-rational conduits of capital and it so just happens that white men are the most worthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She shares a hokey saying she's heard one too many times: \"We don't care if you're orange or blue; the only color we care about is green.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11513103\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5383-edit_custom-4ce66b07a564a299f156d21191f74ceb83bb9da3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kapor Klein talks with communications manager Ashleigh Richelle (left) and the summer associates at the Kapor Center for Social Impact. Kapor Klein's life work is to change the culture of Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If all Kapor Klein did was critique, she'd be irrelevant here. This place values people who build things. And that is what she is doing. The building feels like an alternate universe — one where tech somehow looks like the rest of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one floor, there's the investment team. Their portfolio includes Genius Plaza — the hot startup that others now want to poach. It's an online education platform founded by Ana Roca-Castro, a woman from the Dominican Republic (which is exotic in these parts). She's landed major contracts with national agencies throughout Latin America, and is working to get into more U.S. schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castro, who is based in Albany, New York, describes Kapor Klein as \"protective,\" an early investor who tries to shoo away others who don't share their values. Asked if that could mean \u003cem>possessive, \u003c/em>the tech founder disagrees. \"When someone is territorial they want nobody around,\" but in multiple instances, Kapor Klein has opened doors she didn't know to knock. \"She'll be the first to push me, saying, 'Don't be afraid.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein keeps an eclectic inner circle. It includes a former head of the NAACP; the woman who filed (and lost) a high-profile sexual harassment lawsuit against a leading venture capital fund; and Ulili Onovakpuri. The 32-year-old advises the health care portfolio, deciding which startups get money. But their relationship started when Onovakpuri was a teenager. Her now longtime mentor gave her a scholarship to UC Berkeley. (Kapor Klein launched the IDEAL Scholars Fund, for high-achieving minority students, after California ended affirmative action in schools.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11513099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5123-edit_custom-fa5b02a52b3feb72944deb6965ef280ca63c27bd-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictures of Kapor Klein's SMASH scholars and which college they will attend are on display in the office. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around the corner, social scientists are running data on why people leave tech, looking for holes in the leaky pipeline, so to speak. (They later published \u003ca href=\"http://www.kaporcenter.org/tech-leavers/\">this study\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Gabriel Chaparro — who ran the center's SMASH \u003ca href=\"http://www.lpfi.org/programs/smash/\">math and science program\u003c/a> for students of color at Stanford — shares the lesson he wants to drill into young minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're going to step into places where there's a line of people and none of them look like you. But you've earned your space. So get in that line, push them aside,\" he says. \"You can't just look at that line and say I don't fit in there. \u003cem>Make\u003c/em> your fit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a very Silicon Valley way of being. It's how Uber CEO Travis Kalanick broke the yellow cab industry in city after city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, Kapor Klein wants young people who grew up poor to channel Silicon Valley's sense of entitlement — the idea that it's OK to fail; that failure is necessary; and that one deserves support anyway. She herself doesn't come from money. She grew up on a U.S. Air Force base in Biloxi, Mississippi, and one of her earliest memories was seeing, at age 3, her 7-year-old brother bloodied, beaten for being a Jew. She knew then that the world isn't fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Uber row isn't her first in Silicon Valley. To some extent, she's used to it. She is rich (she won't disclose how rich) and travels in wealthy circles, where people have strong feelings about money. She remembers a billionaire who suggested she's spending too much on her do-gooder education programs. She recollects telling him, \"Well, you probably write a check that's somewhere between five and 10 times that amount of money for private kindergarten for your child.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's quick to point out, though, that she jabbed because she was asking him to donate. If there wasn't a specific ask, a concrete step she was advocating, she said she would hold back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11513104\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5656-edit_custom-d39a56a9b50ad6ef4870823c4bf22e6be11b1006-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kapor Klein sits with her rescue dog, Dudley. He acts as the office's therapy dog and follows her throughout the day. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>NPR did approach leading investors (as Kapor Klein suggested) to get their take on Uber, her letter, and what's the real problem. One was willing to go on the record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you are a shareholder in a company and a stakeholder in a company, you would want to speak with one voice and you would want to work on the problem primarily,\" says Jason Calacanis. \"To kind of blindside a company with a post like that means now the company not only has to solve the problem, they have to react to that position publicly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calacanis is an influential angel investor, and author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062560711/angel\">a new book\u003c/a> on how to invest. While he respects Kapor Klein's work with the underprivileged (he's invited her to speak about it to his startups), he says that the way she spoke out created a \"negative atmosphere\" — a media circus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Calacanis adds, it takes a hard-charging CEO to build the Uber empire. Soft questions around culture, an inclusive culture — those come later. \"After you've won, or won a decent amount of market share or won the early fights, I think you have to shift gears a bit. And I think that's what Uber's going through.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein disagrees — and Uber's monumental meltdown is arguably proof she was right. But when I sit down with her in April, as the drama continues to unfold, she's become hesitant. Uber reached out to her for help, after her letter. Now, as I ask questions about it, she's being tight-lipped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if she is uncomfortable, she says she is, \"because my goal now is to help Uber and any other company that really genuinely wants to change. I don't know what snippets you might use, how they might hear that, and whether that's going to hamper the efforts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein wants the world to understand: Yes, she spoke out when others would not. But no, Uber isn't the only problem child in Silicon Valley. They just happened to get caught. This week she and her husband issued \u003ca href=\"http://www.kaporcenter.org/press-release-posts/statement-from-mitch-kapor-and-freada-kapor-klein-re-eric-holders-uber-investigation-report/\">a statement\u003c/a> to that effect, saying \"the company deserves some room\" to work on itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Uber is a mess — the \"bad boy\" ethos shattered, a nervous breakdown in its place. This week, the CEO announced he is taking a sudden leave of absence. A former U.S. attorney general released a brutal audit of the startup's culture. It's a terrifying moment for many investors who want that $70 billion unicorn to make them rich or richer — not implode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is one Uber investor who stands out for how she decided to speak up. It was not very Silicon Valley-like of her, but Freada Kapor Klein wanted to turn the crisis into a teachable moment. And while \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/13/532751641/ubers-travis-kalanick-announces-leave-of-absence-company-adopts-harassment-polic\">this week's events\u003c/a> could lead her to say \"I told you so,\" she has a different takeaway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's rewind a few months. Kapor Klein decided to write an \u003ca href=\"https://shift.newco.co/an-open-letter-to-the-uber-board-and-investors-2dc0c48c3a7\">open letter\u003c/a> to Uber — which she published with her husband — after a young woman shared an \u003ca href=\"https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber\">explosive account\u003c/a> of sexual harassment at Uber headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/532973451/533102658\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein is a venture capitalist, or a VC. That means she makes money by betting on technology startups. Uber is one of those startups. She has committed to \"impact investment\" — businesses that can turn a profit while also making the world a better place. For too many years, she says, critics would question her on Uber, and she stayed silent. She tried to influence the company from the inside, though she didn't see a real will among leadership to change. While \"Silicon Valley prides itself on pattern recognition,\" the letter said, Uber had \"toxic patterns\" that needed to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein thought she was just saying what insiders knew: This is not a one-off. Turns out, her peers didn't like that and wanted her to pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I could imagine that they wouldn't love the Uber letter,\" Kapor Klein said in an interview with NPR in mid-March. \"But then that they would decide the next step they ought to do is go after our high growth, hot startups and try to get them away from us!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11513101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5168-edit_slide-50509cc390e992a3208786f2193a75d5b1a65bc5-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Heckman, an associate at Kapor Capital, speaks with Kapor Klein. She wrote an open letter to Uber after an engineer shared an instance of sexual harassment at the ride-hailing startup. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She's just learned that other VCs are trying to poach one of her hottest investments, and they're citing the Uber letter to do it, basically saying: this investor throws her own people under the bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, it's one thing to go pitch them. It's another to say, 'Get away from Kapor. See, they're going to do this to you,' \" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be counterintuitive, but in Silicon Valley, the land that created tweeting, there is a code of silence among the rich. People are here to make money, not to agitate. She violated that code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she won't back down. She tells me I should call a shortlist of her most powerful peers and demand they respond on the record. \"Go to Sequoia, go to Benchmark, go to Kleiner, go to Accel, go to Andreessen, go to Khosla,\" she says, naming the kings of much-storied Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's sitting inside the Kapor Center for Social Impact — a name that spells out the intent of the place. Kapor Klein and her husband bought this four-story building in central Oakland — what's become the edge of Silicon Valley as tech expands beyond Cupertino, Mountain View and San Francisco — and it houses an investment arm, research and philanthropic projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein is 64 years old, petite with jet black eyes and curly hair to match. She is tense as she recounts the blowback, her folded hands resting on a conference table made of reclaimed wood. Meanwhile, her dog is napping by her feet, sprawled on a gray carpet made of recycled fishing nets. (She designed the building to be green.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dudley's snoring breaks her concentration, and she lets out a laugh. He's a rescue dog, but sometimes she claims he's a therapy dog. \"You can see why. Doesn't he make you feel better?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wakes him up and the two go in search of her husband and business partner, \u003ca href=\"Mitch%20Kapor\">Mitch Kapor\u003c/a>. When they find him, he happens to be meeting with the president of Silicon Valley Bank — who is trying to not get in the middle of the couple's conversation. But Kapor Klein reels him in, telling him about the letter and the response. Greg Becker politely offers his take: \"Yeah, people compete ... any way they can, right? That's — unfortunately it's human nature ... .\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein points to her dog, who is now rubbing his enormous cream coat against the banker's leg, and she teases: \"I thought it was just dogs that did that. Dogs, not humans.\" Her husband ends the conversation by saying: \"It's a dog-eat-dog world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is his way of acting as her buffer — she, the one who pushes; he, the one who moderates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11513102 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kapor Klein talks with her husband, Mitch Kapor, in their shared office space. He founded Lotus, the database company, and is a legend in Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mitch Kapor is a bit of a legend, by the way. In the 1980s he founded Lotus, the famous spreadsheet maker. Some compare him to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pulled Kapor Klein into the tech world when he hired her to fix Lotus' culture in 1984, to make it the most progressive employer in the U.S. Quite the job description. She would lecture her boss about how he carried himself at work, how he should be \"more sensitive\" about his power, how he could make or break an employee's day just with eye contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple didn't get together until years later, when she sought him out for career advice, and his first marriage fell apart. He asked her out on a date. He had a son. She was 43 and didn't have kids. She assumed it was a summer fling and warned him, date two, that she's not \"stepmom material.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out, it wasn't a fling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her life's work is to change the culture of Silicon Valley — a place she feels has gone backward in time. There are \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding\">far fewer women in computer science\u003c/a> today than in the 1980s. Blacks and Latinos are missing, too. Kapor Klein faults the investor class, which holds on to the myth of meritocracy, that they are the hyper-rational conduits of capital and it so just happens that white men are the most worthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She shares a hokey saying she's heard one too many times: \"We don't care if you're orange or blue; the only color we care about is green.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11513103\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5383-edit_custom-4ce66b07a564a299f156d21191f74ceb83bb9da3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kapor Klein talks with communications manager Ashleigh Richelle (left) and the summer associates at the Kapor Center for Social Impact. Kapor Klein's life work is to change the culture of Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If all Kapor Klein did was critique, she'd be irrelevant here. This place values people who build things. And that is what she is doing. The building feels like an alternate universe — one where tech somehow looks like the rest of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one floor, there's the investment team. Their portfolio includes Genius Plaza — the hot startup that others now want to poach. It's an online education platform founded by Ana Roca-Castro, a woman from the Dominican Republic (which is exotic in these parts). She's landed major contracts with national agencies throughout Latin America, and is working to get into more U.S. schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castro, who is based in Albany, New York, describes Kapor Klein as \"protective,\" an early investor who tries to shoo away others who don't share their values. Asked if that could mean \u003cem>possessive, \u003c/em>the tech founder disagrees. \"When someone is territorial they want nobody around,\" but in multiple instances, Kapor Klein has opened doors she didn't know to knock. \"She'll be the first to push me, saying, 'Don't be afraid.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein keeps an eclectic inner circle. It includes a former head of the NAACP; the woman who filed (and lost) a high-profile sexual harassment lawsuit against a leading venture capital fund; and Ulili Onovakpuri. The 32-year-old advises the health care portfolio, deciding which startups get money. But their relationship started when Onovakpuri was a teenager. Her now longtime mentor gave her a scholarship to UC Berkeley. (Kapor Klein launched the IDEAL Scholars Fund, for high-achieving minority students, after California ended affirmative action in schools.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11513099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5123-edit_custom-fa5b02a52b3feb72944deb6965ef280ca63c27bd-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictures of Kapor Klein's SMASH scholars and which college they will attend are on display in the office. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around the corner, social scientists are running data on why people leave tech, looking for holes in the leaky pipeline, so to speak. (They later published \u003ca href=\"http://www.kaporcenter.org/tech-leavers/\">this study\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Gabriel Chaparro — who ran the center's SMASH \u003ca href=\"http://www.lpfi.org/programs/smash/\">math and science program\u003c/a> for students of color at Stanford — shares the lesson he wants to drill into young minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're going to step into places where there's a line of people and none of them look like you. But you've earned your space. So get in that line, push them aside,\" he says. \"You can't just look at that line and say I don't fit in there. \u003cem>Make\u003c/em> your fit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a very Silicon Valley way of being. It's how Uber CEO Travis Kalanick broke the yellow cab industry in city after city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, Kapor Klein wants young people who grew up poor to channel Silicon Valley's sense of entitlement — the idea that it's OK to fail; that failure is necessary; and that one deserves support anyway. She herself doesn't come from money. She grew up on a U.S. Air Force base in Biloxi, Mississippi, and one of her earliest memories was seeing, at age 3, her 7-year-old brother bloodied, beaten for being a Jew. She knew then that the world isn't fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Uber row isn't her first in Silicon Valley. To some extent, she's used to it. She is rich (she won't disclose how rich) and travels in wealthy circles, where people have strong feelings about money. She remembers a billionaire who suggested she's spending too much on her do-gooder education programs. She recollects telling him, \"Well, you probably write a check that's somewhere between five and 10 times that amount of money for private kindergarten for your child.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's quick to point out, though, that she jabbed because she was asking him to donate. If there wasn't a specific ask, a concrete step she was advocating, she said she would hold back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11513104\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5656-edit_custom-d39a56a9b50ad6ef4870823c4bf22e6be11b1006-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kapor Klein sits with her rescue dog, Dudley. He acts as the office's therapy dog and follows her throughout the day. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>NPR did approach leading investors (as Kapor Klein suggested) to get their take on Uber, her letter, and what's the real problem. One was willing to go on the record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you are a shareholder in a company and a stakeholder in a company, you would want to speak with one voice and you would want to work on the problem primarily,\" says Jason Calacanis. \"To kind of blindside a company with a post like that means now the company not only has to solve the problem, they have to react to that position publicly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calacanis is an influential angel investor, and author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062560711/angel\">a new book\u003c/a> on how to invest. While he respects Kapor Klein's work with the underprivileged (he's invited her to speak about it to his startups), he says that the way she spoke out created a \"negative atmosphere\" — a media circus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Calacanis adds, it takes a hard-charging CEO to build the Uber empire. Soft questions around culture, an inclusive culture — those come later. \"After you've won, or won a decent amount of market share or won the early fights, I think you have to shift gears a bit. And I think that's what Uber's going through.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein disagrees — and Uber's monumental meltdown is arguably proof she was right. But when I sit down with her in April, as the drama continues to unfold, she's become hesitant. Uber reached out to her for help, after her letter. Now, as I ask questions about it, she's being tight-lipped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if she is uncomfortable, she says she is, \"because my goal now is to help Uber and any other company that really genuinely wants to change. I don't know what snippets you might use, how they might hear that, and whether that's going to hamper the efforts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>You probably never want to hear you've been fired. If you've heard those words, you know they feel like a punch in the gut. Now, imagine that instead of your boss telling you face to face, you get the news from a pop-up alert on your smartphone. That's how it works at Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Huestis didn't realize that, until it happened to him. At first, there was nothing unusual about that day in April. He took his Chrysler 300 to a Burlington, Vermont, car wash. He bought the used car specifically to drive for Uber. After the car wash, he slid into the front seat and tried to open his Uber app. Nothing. He'd been \"deactivated,\" as Uber calls it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber has created one of the fastest-growing workforces in American history. And to recruit drivers, company leaders are fond of saying you can \"Be Your Own Boss.\" But through dozens of interviews and an informal survey, NPR found that hundreds of drivers feel the company is not living up to that promise. They say the San Francisco-based startup sets strict rules and punishments, just as other bosses do, but it's eerily distant. Even in dire situations — like when you've been axed — it's impossible to reach a human in charge. This facelessness is decidedly unlike other workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews with NPR, Uber officials acknowledge that the company has to improve its communication with drivers and that in the initial years of growth, it was not a top priority. Now, they say, that's going to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/531642304/532100148\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Huestis found himself locked out, he wasn't sure if it was just a software glitch. He recalls the app alert told him to \"please contact customer support.\" It's counterintuitive, but again in Uber-speak, the driver is the \"customer.\" Drivers rely on the company's service — the now iconic black app — to match them with riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huestis hit the button on the Uber app, which directed him to a form (not a person). Moments after hitting \"submit,\" he got a message from a company Uber uses to do criminal background checks. Checkr, another Silicon Valley startup, told him he had a marijuana record that needed to be reviewed before he could drive again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing threw Huestis off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 42-year-old, who lives with his girlfriend and her child, indeed \u003cem>had\u003c/em> a record for three marijuana possessions — spanning from 1993 to 2010. He says when he started driving for Uber in early 2016, he passed the background check. The only thing that has changed since is that on New Year's Day, Jan. 1, 2017, Huestis \u003ca href=\"https://www.sec.state.vt.us/media/821533/shumlin_pardons.pdf\">was pardoned\u003c/a> by the governor of Vermont, clearing his record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn't a DWI. It wasn't a felony. It wasn't a rape charge. It wasn't a kidnapping,\" Huestis says. \"It was nothing violent or anything that would stop me from being a Uber driver. So I was like, 'Why is this happening?'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11508376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11508376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-800x800.jpe\" alt=\"Eric Huestis was blocked from driving for Uber in Burlington, Vt., after he received a governor's pardon for past marijuana possession convictions. Uber later restored Huestis.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2.jpe 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-160x160.jpe 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-240x240.jpe 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-375x375.jpe 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-520x520.jpe 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-32x32.jpe 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-50x50.jpe 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-64x64.jpe 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-96x96.jpe 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-128x128.jpe 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-150x150.jpe 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Huestis was blocked from driving for Uber in Burlington, Vermont, after he received a governor's pardon for past marijuana possession convictions. Uber later restored Huestis. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Eric Huestis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huestis felt like he was invested in Uber — he even runs a Facebook page for local Uber drivers to bond — but the company isn't invested in him. Uber is among the largest private companies on earth and is currently valued at about $70 billion. But it didn't even have a number for him to call. Uber doesn't offer that kind of customer support. Huestis did manage to contact state officials, he says, but they didn't have a way to call Uber either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Huestis found himself trapped in a maze of online forms and generic emails. At first, the notifications told him it would take 15 days to review his case; then, 30 days. If that doesn't sound like a big deal, he puts it in perspective: \"What if you got booted off your cellphone provider? That [would] change everything. I mean, I got booted off my income provider, for no reason.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience of this Uber driver may be a window into the future of work. For years, workers have enjoyed the way technology creates distance from the boss. You can join meetings from home, or from Hawaii. But with Uber, we are coming to a strange inflection point. The company has designed an app that is so efficient, cheap and scalable that it manages 600,000 drivers in the U.S. Yet there's an underside to distance. It can create a system that lacks the most basic sympathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR conducted \u003ca href=\"#methodology\">an informal survey\u003c/a> of Uber drivers, using email lists and social media. It's not a scientific poll. Respondents are self-selected, and possibly more negative toward Uber than the average driver. Still, it's a window into how hundreds of drivers feel; and an Uber spokesman says many of NPR's survey results track the company's own findings about its driver workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huestis' experience is clearly not unique. Of the respondents, 193 said they were able to speak with a person at Uber to get the help they needed. But 688 said they were not — no human was available. In phone interviews with NPR, drivers shared examples of how they couldn't reach Uber after an accident on the job (one man contacted Uber's insurance company, which then became the conduit to Uber), or after being kicked off the platform (drivers typically don't get a hearing).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/532120218/532120219\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huestis lives week to week. After his deactivation, he managed to make a bit of money by picking up scrap metal from nearby farms and recycling it. Only he can't do that work alone. He needs a friend to help because he's an amputee. He lost his left leg in a motorcycle accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huestis contacted NPR the same day he was axed and, over the weeks, we followed his ups and downs. On May 1 he texted, \"i'm in tears today, rents due, no income from uber in over 20 days.\" He spent day and night checking his Uber app, waiting to learn the fate of his career the way some people check Facebook to see if a selfie got liked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber says the proper appeals procedures were followed with the third-party background check company in Huestis' case. After nearly a month, he was allowed to drive for Uber again. He says he would like to sue Uber for about $3,000 in lost wages. That's a lot of money for him, but not enough for a lawyer to bother with his case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Be Your Own Boss' or 'Do What I Say'?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Uber's tagline — \"Be Your Own Boss\" — is an invitation as empowering as Nike's \"Just Do it\" and Apple's \"Think Different.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Uber's case, though, it's more than just savvy marketing. Being one's own boss is the legal argument that underlies Uber's entire business. The company says drivers are independent contractors — not employees entitled to expensive benefits. An Uber-commissioned \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/uber-static/comms/PDF/Uber_Driver-Partners_Hall_Kreuger_2015.pdf\">study says\u003c/a> 87 percent of drivers joined because that's what they want: to be their own boss and set their own schedule. Uber lawyers cite that statistic in court as evidence when drivers sue the company for employee benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Uber leaders have not publicly asked an obvious follow-up question: At Uber, do you feel like your own boss? So NPR asked drivers, in the informal survey. A little more than half of respondents — 491 total — said they did; and, perhaps unexpectedly, nearly half — 436 — said they did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don't feel like your own boss at all,\" says driver David McKee from Vista, California. \"The only thing you control is the time when you sign on and sign off. Other than that, Uber controls everything. It's 'Be Your Own Boss' and 'do what I say.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"9aG9dyMgkpsf2wBJ47tLcYLs9BmJY9xx\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few workers can drop their kids off at school every morning and then run errands as needed before clocking in. The power to set one's own hours is rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While McKee and other Uber drivers appreciate that flexibility, they say it is important to not overestimate it. A total of 779 survey respondents — more than 80 percent — say that to make enough money as an Uber driver, they have to work peak hours, like morning rush or weekend nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not unparalleled freedom, which is hardly surprising. After all, Uber is a transportation service that relies on customer demand, not a coding job where you can flip open your laptop and work anytime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But drivers go a step further and say they are not just subject to market forces. At Uber, they are also bound by the company's determination to protect the brand by tightly controlling driver performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber uses the sensors in drivers' own smartphones to monitor their turns and lane changes and rolling stops. Of the survey respondents, 116 (more than 10 percent), say they didn't realize Uber was doing that (they may have missed that line in the very long contract) and 433 (nearly half) would like Uber to stop it. Uber's competitor. Lyft, does not do such tracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKee says it is the job of the government to license you, penalize you and take away your license if warranted. He says Uber is making a power grab and \"becoming the police.\" He and other drivers also don't trust the company's intentions with their private data. Many Uber drivers work for more than one ride-hailing service, and they fear the tracking is a way for Uber to collect intelligence on smaller competitors like Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber says smartphone tracking is good for safety and protects drivers against unfair complaints from passengers. If you want to drive, opting out is not an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"dQ5lL0oOaXahUFQ949zsUdQXDUtUIcTA\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers also don't have a choice when it comes to UberPool — the service where you can share a car with others. Drivers say they feel Uber is coercing them into offering it. They say while passengers get to pay much less, drivers also make much less — it is a money loser. In the NPR survey, 7 out of every 10 respondents who offer UberPool say they do not like it and wish they didn't have to provide it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they do. Uber has bundled its products, so if you want to drive for Uber's standard service (UberX), you have to offer Pool, too. For many, that doesn't feel very being-your-own-boss-like.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Dynamic pricing: Keep 'em guessing, and driving\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The way pricing works at Uber also subjects drivers to a kind of control that's novel. While people who are independent contractors typically set their own price for services, at Uber the company sets the price. And it's dynamic, able to change second by second according to a calculation that is secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While economists marvel at dynamic pricing — it's a superpower that the smartphone and algorithms make possible — drivers scratch their heads. It leaves Uber all-knowing, and drivers clueless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in other jobs, they're not sure what they'll make per hour, and so they can end up on the road far longer than expected. Seventy-nine drivers tell NPR they have driven shifts 14 hours or longer. That means being in the car, Uber app on, either driving a passenger or waiting for work. Three people showed NPR documentation for driving 20 hours in a single day. Uber does not limit how many hours a driver can work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is clearly a public safety hazard. But at Uber, drivers talk about it as though it is normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11510928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11510928\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyle Reninger sits in his car in Muncie. He drives for Uber part time, typically on weekend nights, so he is more likely to pick up surge prices, which earn him more money. He also drives for Lyft, an Uber competitor. \u003ccite>(Lucas Carter/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kyle Reninger is an Uber driver from Muncie, Indiana. The 32-year-old works weekend nights because, he says, that's when he is most likely to pick up surge fares — the higher prices (two, three, five times the regular rate) that passengers hate to pay and that drivers live by. They are the nuggets of the Uber gold rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of several weeks, he kept an audio diary for NPR, sending WhatsApp messages and screenshots between rides. His voice memos become a way to peer into his modern workplace and observe how the nights stretch out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reninger says he feels like his own boss: He chooses when to turn the Uber app on and off. And it's a side gig. He and his wife run a vegan bakery. As that business gets off the ground, Uber is a way to make quick money and also advertise to his passengers. He keeps vegan cookies in the car. (An Uber spokesman says it's OK for drivers to advertise another business in their own cars, so long as it is not an Uber competitor.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11510929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Reninger and his wife, Amanda, prepare baked goods for their vegan bakery business. 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(Right) Reninger stocks homemade cookies in his car and gives them out while he is driving for Uber. \u003ccite>(Lucas Carter/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One Friday, Reninger sets out to make $200, not counting the cost of gas. He is on Uber and competitor Lyft, though the vast majority of his business comes from Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business is slower than he would like. It takes him 98 minutes on the road to get his first payment of $14.14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That amount is less than he expected. The Uber app estimated he should bring in $7 more. He says he is used to Uber playing this game — suggesting one fare, then paying another. He sends a message in the app basically saying: I got underpaid; fix that. Then, he keeps waiting for his next passenger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the hard part, the in between,\" he says in his voice memo. \"Not really sure, you know, if I should drive around, hope to get another ping. Or if I should head back north.\" He had driven down to Indianapolis, a little more than an hour from home, hoping for a busier night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In between the waiting, the passengers he does get make him laugh, think or sometimes cringe. One man is a globe-trotter who talks about his forays in Europe. Another sneaks an open beer can into the car, even though it's against the law and Reninger asked him not to. \"That was kind of a jerk move,\" the driver says. By 1:42 a.m., nearly nine hours into his shift, he is only about halfway to his $200 goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An hour later, he gets another passenger who says over and over, \"I'm so drunk; I'm so drunk, man.\" The passenger wants to go to IHOP, which is typical. A bit less typical, Reninger says in another voice memo, is that the drunk man got out of the car, \"zipped down his pants and started to urinate, right in front of IHOP. Then walked in, like nothing happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11510931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Cars drive through Muncie at dusk.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11510931\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars drive through Muncie at dusk. \u003ccite>(Lucas Carter/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By 6:11 a.m., you can start to hear Reninger's voice fading. And there is something he doesn't admit in his voice memos while he is on the road: He is having a hard time staying awake. He sips water and rolls down his window to help him. He waits until he gets home to mention this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, the Uber driver was in his car 14 hours, 9 minutes, and covered 401.2 miles. He got only one small surge fare. If you put aside the cost of gas, he made $165.30. Including tips, he nearly hit his goal. It just took a couple of more hours than he had hoped (and it was by no means his longest shift).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it goes. Each night for the Uber driver is a gamble. The hours go by — just like in a casino. Only here, you could get tired and kill someone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a problem that Uber could solve. It designed the app to lock out drivers if they don't accept a certain number of passengers (kind of like being put in the digital corner). It could design a safety feature to lock out drivers after a certain number of hours. (Lyft does that.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Uber lacks the will to do so. A company spokesman says in an email, \"Uber is a flexible work opportunity, so people can drive whenever they want.\" Also, according to Uber data, more than half of U.S. drivers use the app less than 10 hours a week. (Uber declined to disclose data on how long full-time drivers have the app on.) And finally, the spokesman says, Uber is testing out a new app alert in some cities, to remind drivers about the importance of getting enough rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Uber's awakening\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The hype around Uber is that the company doesn't need drivers because it is \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/04/03/522099560/pittsburgh-offers-driving-lessons-for-ubers-autonomous-cars\">developing self-driving cars\u003c/a>; and the biggest workplace crisis is \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/06/531806891/uber-fires-20-employees-after-sexual-harassment-claim-investigation\">sexual harassment\u003c/a> — the way women in the corporate office are treated. But according to current and former employees as well as investors, Uber feels far more threatened by its broken relationship with drivers. This is the existential threat to the business, because self-driving fleets won't be ready anytime soon. Uber needs the human workforce now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Uber hired Janelle Sallenave to improve the way it responds to drivers' and riders' needs, disputes and accidents. \"How could my job not exist? How could there not be somebody whose job it would be to oversee the support of our drivers?\" she says in a phone interview with NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sallenave says Uber, which began service in 2010, has grown so fast, it just didn't have the time to \"marinate\" — like older companies — on some of the basics. The focus has been on launching in more cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, she says, drivers are a top priority and Uber will be announcing changes. \"I think in the coming months some of the improvements we are making directly address feedback that our drivers have been giving us for the last year plus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sallenave acknowledges that getting an Uber representative on the phone six months ago was a feat that, she says, \"frankly I don't know I would be able to do.\" She says Uber has a lot of work to do to improve communication with drivers, and the company is doing that. It's staffing more than 200 physical drop-in centers (called \"green light hubs\") and introducing new dedicated phone lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers' complaints about poor communication are no surprise to Sallenave. She says Uber needs to revamp the way it \"deactivates\" drivers and that the company faces \"some serious work\" in how it handles those situations. Sallenave says Uber is undertaking significant policy changes, though she declined to provide details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also maintains that drivers are their own boss; that Uber is a digital platform (like eBay), not an employer; and that drivers are a lot like her own husband, who recently started a consultancy business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He doesn't get benefits. He doesn't exactly know what he's going to make. I mean, that to me is all of the risks, but also the potential reward, of being an individual small-business owner,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A case study in disruption\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A former federal regulator strongly disagrees with the Uber official's position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, I can't just declare a pigeon a duck because I think it should be a duck,\" says David Weil. He was head of the Department of Labor's wage-and-hour division under President Barack Obama. It was Weil's job to investigate companies that misclassify workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11510933\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/kyle-driver-app_custom-d35e2f6f448a4b993aa78c730e096ea2bb48a190-s400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot of the driver's view of the Uber app measures brakes and accelerations while Reninger drives.\" width=\"400\" height=\"711\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11510933\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/kyle-driver-app_custom-d35e2f6f448a4b993aa78c730e096ea2bb48a190-s400-c85.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/kyle-driver-app_custom-d35e2f6f448a4b993aa78c730e096ea2bb48a190-s400-c85-160x284.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/kyle-driver-app_custom-d35e2f6f448a4b993aa78c730e096ea2bb48a190-s400-c85-240x427.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/kyle-driver-app_custom-d35e2f6f448a4b993aa78c730e096ea2bb48a190-s400-c85-375x667.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of the driver's view of the Uber app measures brakes and accelerations while Reninger drives. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kyle Reninger)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Weil visited Silicon Valley. He came with then-Labor Secretary Tom Perez (who is now head of the Democratic National Committee). And something struck Weil: While people in tech talked like they were all disruptors in the same boat, they weren't. At a startup like TaskRabbit, for example, the people providing a service set their own price and define what work they'll do. The company doesn't control those things. But at Uber, the company sets the price and designs the services (like Uber Black, X and Pool), \u003cem>and \u003c/em>those services are core to the brand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah, it looks a lot like an employment relationship. It looks like a very sophisticated, branded product provider,\" Weil says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weil's opinion, which is not based on inside knowledge, strikes at the heart of a number of legal battles and court cases in which workers are suing Uber, saying they are employees entitled to benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Weil didn't publicly express his opinion about Uber as a regulator; and he didn't put resources into investigations or outreach to Uber drivers. He says that is because although these drivers were a rapidly growing workforce, they were still a tiny sector, compared with janitors or nurses aides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As the head of the agency, I every day dealt with this reality. We were responsible for 130 million workers in 7.3 million workplaces,\" he says. \"When you face those kinds of numbers you have to think every day very strategically about, where will you put your very limited resources?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this respect, Uber becomes a fascinating case study in how disruption works. While the tech startup pursued aggressive growth — move fast, think later — public officials describe their collective response as cautious. \"You don't want to be seen as stopping progress,\" another former federal labor official told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"methodology\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>About the survey\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR conducted an informal survey of Uber drivers from May 20-21, 2017, based on questions developed in consultation with a nationally recognized survey company. NPR distributed survey invitations to Uber drivers through an email list and through popular and active general online forums. We avoided recruiting from any forum focused on complaints or negative topics to avoid unduly biasing the responses. The survey respondents are not a scientific sample and not representative of all Uber drivers nationwide. They are self-selected and therefore represent the views of drivers who chose to participate. For example, drivers may be more likely to respond if they are more comfortable filling out an online survey or if they have more negative feelings toward the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To verify that survey takers were indeed Uber drivers, NPR included questions in the survey that require intimate knowledge of how the company pays drivers. Of the 1,158 respondents, NPR determined 943 responses valid. This is just a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of people who drive for Uber. Not all respondents replied to every question. Percentages may not total 100 because of rounding. NPR asked about length of service, to ensure a diversity of driver experiences with Uber. NPR solicited contact information of drivers surveyed and called dozens of drivers for follow-up interviews. The drivers were almost all still active; a handful had stopped driving in the last three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR Business Desk intern Mollie Simon, Senior Research Director Lori Kaplan and News Apps Developer Brittany Mayes contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+Faceless+Boss%3A+A+Look+Into+The+Uber+Driver+Workplace&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Huestis found himself locked out, he wasn't sure if it was just a software glitch. He recalls the app alert told him to \"please contact customer support.\" It's counterintuitive, but again in Uber-speak, the driver is the \"customer.\" Drivers rely on the company's service — the now iconic black app — to match them with riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huestis hit the button on the Uber app, which directed him to a form (not a person). Moments after hitting \"submit,\" he got a message from a company Uber uses to do criminal background checks. Checkr, another Silicon Valley startup, told him he had a marijuana record that needed to be reviewed before he could drive again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing threw Huestis off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 42-year-old, who lives with his girlfriend and her child, indeed \u003cem>had\u003c/em> a record for three marijuana possessions — spanning from 1993 to 2010. He says when he started driving for Uber in early 2016, he passed the background check. The only thing that has changed since is that on New Year's Day, Jan. 1, 2017, Huestis \u003ca href=\"https://www.sec.state.vt.us/media/821533/shumlin_pardons.pdf\">was pardoned\u003c/a> by the governor of Vermont, clearing his record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn't a DWI. It wasn't a felony. It wasn't a rape charge. It wasn't a kidnapping,\" Huestis says. \"It was nothing violent or anything that would stop me from being a Uber driver. So I was like, 'Why is this happening?'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11508376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11508376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-800x800.jpe\" alt=\"Eric Huestis was blocked from driving for Uber in Burlington, Vt., after he received a governor's pardon for past marijuana possession convictions. Uber later restored Huestis.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2.jpe 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-160x160.jpe 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-240x240.jpe 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-375x375.jpe 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-520x520.jpe 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-32x32.jpe 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-50x50.jpe 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-64x64.jpe 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-96x96.jpe 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-128x128.jpe 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-150x150.jpe 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Huestis was blocked from driving for Uber in Burlington, Vermont, after he received a governor's pardon for past marijuana possession convictions. Uber later restored Huestis. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Eric Huestis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huestis felt like he was invested in Uber — he even runs a Facebook page for local Uber drivers to bond — but the company isn't invested in him. Uber is among the largest private companies on earth and is currently valued at about $70 billion. But it didn't even have a number for him to call. Uber doesn't offer that kind of customer support. Huestis did manage to contact state officials, he says, but they didn't have a way to call Uber either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Huestis found himself trapped in a maze of online forms and generic emails. At first, the notifications told him it would take 15 days to review his case; then, 30 days. If that doesn't sound like a big deal, he puts it in perspective: \"What if you got booted off your cellphone provider? That [would] change everything. I mean, I got booted off my income provider, for no reason.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience of this Uber driver may be a window into the future of work. For years, workers have enjoyed the way technology creates distance from the boss. You can join meetings from home, or from Hawaii. But with Uber, we are coming to a strange inflection point. The company has designed an app that is so efficient, cheap and scalable that it manages 600,000 drivers in the U.S. Yet there's an underside to distance. It can create a system that lacks the most basic sympathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR conducted \u003ca href=\"#methodology\">an informal survey\u003c/a> of Uber drivers, using email lists and social media. It's not a scientific poll. Respondents are self-selected, and possibly more negative toward Uber than the average driver. Still, it's a window into how hundreds of drivers feel; and an Uber spokesman says many of NPR's survey results track the company's own findings about its driver workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huestis' experience is clearly not unique. Of the respondents, 193 said they were able to speak with a person at Uber to get the help they needed. But 688 said they were not — no human was available. In phone interviews with NPR, drivers shared examples of how they couldn't reach Uber after an accident on the job (one man contacted Uber's insurance company, which then became the conduit to Uber), or after being kicked off the platform (drivers typically don't get a hearing).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/532120218/532120219\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huestis lives week to week. After his deactivation, he managed to make a bit of money by picking up scrap metal from nearby farms and recycling it. Only he can't do that work alone. He needs a friend to help because he's an amputee. He lost his left leg in a motorcycle accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huestis contacted NPR the same day he was axed and, over the weeks, we followed his ups and downs. On May 1 he texted, \"i'm in tears today, rents due, no income from uber in over 20 days.\" He spent day and night checking his Uber app, waiting to learn the fate of his career the way some people check Facebook to see if a selfie got liked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber says the proper appeals procedures were followed with the third-party background check company in Huestis' case. After nearly a month, he was allowed to drive for Uber again. He says he would like to sue Uber for about $3,000 in lost wages. That's a lot of money for him, but not enough for a lawyer to bother with his case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Be Your Own Boss' or 'Do What I Say'?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Uber's tagline — \"Be Your Own Boss\" — is an invitation as empowering as Nike's \"Just Do it\" and Apple's \"Think Different.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Uber's case, though, it's more than just savvy marketing. Being one's own boss is the legal argument that underlies Uber's entire business. The company says drivers are independent contractors — not employees entitled to expensive benefits. An Uber-commissioned \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/uber-static/comms/PDF/Uber_Driver-Partners_Hall_Kreuger_2015.pdf\">study says\u003c/a> 87 percent of drivers joined because that's what they want: to be their own boss and set their own schedule. Uber lawyers cite that statistic in court as evidence when drivers sue the company for employee benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Uber leaders have not publicly asked an obvious follow-up question: At Uber, do you feel like your own boss? So NPR asked drivers, in the informal survey. A little more than half of respondents — 491 total — said they did; and, perhaps unexpectedly, nearly half — 436 — said they did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don't feel like your own boss at all,\" says driver David McKee from Vista, California. \"The only thing you control is the time when you sign on and sign off. Other than that, Uber controls everything. It's 'Be Your Own Boss' and 'do what I say.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few workers can drop their kids off at school every morning and then run errands as needed before clocking in. The power to set one's own hours is rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While McKee and other Uber drivers appreciate that flexibility, they say it is important to not overestimate it. A total of 779 survey respondents — more than 80 percent — say that to make enough money as an Uber driver, they have to work peak hours, like morning rush or weekend nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not unparalleled freedom, which is hardly surprising. After all, Uber is a transportation service that relies on customer demand, not a coding job where you can flip open your laptop and work anytime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But drivers go a step further and say they are not just subject to market forces. At Uber, they are also bound by the company's determination to protect the brand by tightly controlling driver performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber uses the sensors in drivers' own smartphones to monitor their turns and lane changes and rolling stops. Of the survey respondents, 116 (more than 10 percent), say they didn't realize Uber was doing that (they may have missed that line in the very long contract) and 433 (nearly half) would like Uber to stop it. Uber's competitor. Lyft, does not do such tracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKee says it is the job of the government to license you, penalize you and take away your license if warranted. He says Uber is making a power grab and \"becoming the police.\" He and other drivers also don't trust the company's intentions with their private data. Many Uber drivers work for more than one ride-hailing service, and they fear the tracking is a way for Uber to collect intelligence on smaller competitors like Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber says smartphone tracking is good for safety and protects drivers against unfair complaints from passengers. If you want to drive, opting out is not an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers also don't have a choice when it comes to UberPool — the service where you can share a car with others. Drivers say they feel Uber is coercing them into offering it. They say while passengers get to pay much less, drivers also make much less — it is a money loser. In the NPR survey, 7 out of every 10 respondents who offer UberPool say they do not like it and wish they didn't have to provide it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they do. Uber has bundled its products, so if you want to drive for Uber's standard service (UberX), you have to offer Pool, too. For many, that doesn't feel very being-your-own-boss-like.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Dynamic pricing: Keep 'em guessing, and driving\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The way pricing works at Uber also subjects drivers to a kind of control that's novel. While people who are independent contractors typically set their own price for services, at Uber the company sets the price. And it's dynamic, able to change second by second according to a calculation that is secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While economists marvel at dynamic pricing — it's a superpower that the smartphone and algorithms make possible — drivers scratch their heads. It leaves Uber all-knowing, and drivers clueless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in other jobs, they're not sure what they'll make per hour, and so they can end up on the road far longer than expected. Seventy-nine drivers tell NPR they have driven shifts 14 hours or longer. That means being in the car, Uber app on, either driving a passenger or waiting for work. Three people showed NPR documentation for driving 20 hours in a single day. Uber does not limit how many hours a driver can work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is clearly a public safety hazard. But at Uber, drivers talk about it as though it is normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11510928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11510928\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyle Reninger sits in his car in Muncie. He drives for Uber part time, typically on weekend nights, so he is more likely to pick up surge prices, which earn him more money. He also drives for Lyft, an Uber competitor. \u003ccite>(Lucas Carter/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kyle Reninger is an Uber driver from Muncie, Indiana. The 32-year-old works weekend nights because, he says, that's when he is most likely to pick up surge fares — the higher prices (two, three, five times the regular rate) that passengers hate to pay and that drivers live by. They are the nuggets of the Uber gold rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of several weeks, he kept an audio diary for NPR, sending WhatsApp messages and screenshots between rides. His voice memos become a way to peer into his modern workplace and observe how the nights stretch out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reninger says he feels like his own boss: He chooses when to turn the Uber app on and off. And it's a side gig. He and his wife run a vegan bakery. As that business gets off the ground, Uber is a way to make quick money and also advertise to his passengers. He keeps vegan cookies in the car. (An Uber spokesman says it's OK for drivers to advertise another business in their own cars, so long as it is not an Uber competitor.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11510929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Reninger and his wife, Amanda, prepare baked goods for their vegan bakery business. (Right) Reninger stocks homemade cookies in his car and gives them out while he is driving for Uber.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11510929\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reninger and his wife, Amanda, prepare baked goods for their vegan bakery business. (Right) Reninger stocks homemade cookies in his car and gives them out while he is driving for Uber. \u003ccite>(Lucas Carter/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One Friday, Reninger sets out to make $200, not counting the cost of gas. He is on Uber and competitor Lyft, though the vast majority of his business comes from Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business is slower than he would like. It takes him 98 minutes on the road to get his first payment of $14.14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That amount is less than he expected. The Uber app estimated he should bring in $7 more. He says he is used to Uber playing this game — suggesting one fare, then paying another. He sends a message in the app basically saying: I got underpaid; fix that. Then, he keeps waiting for his next passenger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the hard part, the in between,\" he says in his voice memo. \"Not really sure, you know, if I should drive around, hope to get another ping. Or if I should head back north.\" He had driven down to Indianapolis, a little more than an hour from home, hoping for a busier night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In between the waiting, the passengers he does get make him laugh, think or sometimes cringe. One man is a globe-trotter who talks about his forays in Europe. Another sneaks an open beer can into the car, even though it's against the law and Reninger asked him not to. \"That was kind of a jerk move,\" the driver says. By 1:42 a.m., nearly nine hours into his shift, he is only about halfway to his $200 goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An hour later, he gets another passenger who says over and over, \"I'm so drunk; I'm so drunk, man.\" The passenger wants to go to IHOP, which is typical. A bit less typical, Reninger says in another voice memo, is that the drunk man got out of the car, \"zipped down his pants and started to urinate, right in front of IHOP. Then walked in, like nothing happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11510931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Cars drive through Muncie at dusk.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11510931\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars drive through Muncie at dusk. \u003ccite>(Lucas Carter/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By 6:11 a.m., you can start to hear Reninger's voice fading. And there is something he doesn't admit in his voice memos while he is on the road: He is having a hard time staying awake. He sips water and rolls down his window to help him. He waits until he gets home to mention this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, the Uber driver was in his car 14 hours, 9 minutes, and covered 401.2 miles. He got only one small surge fare. If you put aside the cost of gas, he made $165.30. Including tips, he nearly hit his goal. It just took a couple of more hours than he had hoped (and it was by no means his longest shift).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it goes. Each night for the Uber driver is a gamble. The hours go by — just like in a casino. Only here, you could get tired and kill someone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a problem that Uber could solve. It designed the app to lock out drivers if they don't accept a certain number of passengers (kind of like being put in the digital corner). It could design a safety feature to lock out drivers after a certain number of hours. (Lyft does that.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Uber lacks the will to do so. A company spokesman says in an email, \"Uber is a flexible work opportunity, so people can drive whenever they want.\" Also, according to Uber data, more than half of U.S. drivers use the app less than 10 hours a week. (Uber declined to disclose data on how long full-time drivers have the app on.) And finally, the spokesman says, Uber is testing out a new app alert in some cities, to remind drivers about the importance of getting enough rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Uber's awakening\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The hype around Uber is that the company doesn't need drivers because it is \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/04/03/522099560/pittsburgh-offers-driving-lessons-for-ubers-autonomous-cars\">developing self-driving cars\u003c/a>; and the biggest workplace crisis is \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/06/531806891/uber-fires-20-employees-after-sexual-harassment-claim-investigation\">sexual harassment\u003c/a> — the way women in the corporate office are treated. But according to current and former employees as well as investors, Uber feels far more threatened by its broken relationship with drivers. This is the existential threat to the business, because self-driving fleets won't be ready anytime soon. Uber needs the human workforce now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Uber hired Janelle Sallenave to improve the way it responds to drivers' and riders' needs, disputes and accidents. \"How could my job not exist? How could there not be somebody whose job it would be to oversee the support of our drivers?\" she says in a phone interview with NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sallenave says Uber, which began service in 2010, has grown so fast, it just didn't have the time to \"marinate\" — like older companies — on some of the basics. The focus has been on launching in more cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, she says, drivers are a top priority and Uber will be announcing changes. \"I think in the coming months some of the improvements we are making directly address feedback that our drivers have been giving us for the last year plus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sallenave acknowledges that getting an Uber representative on the phone six months ago was a feat that, she says, \"frankly I don't know I would be able to do.\" She says Uber has a lot of work to do to improve communication with drivers, and the company is doing that. It's staffing more than 200 physical drop-in centers (called \"green light hubs\") and introducing new dedicated phone lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers' complaints about poor communication are no surprise to Sallenave. She says Uber needs to revamp the way it \"deactivates\" drivers and that the company faces \"some serious work\" in how it handles those situations. Sallenave says Uber is undertaking significant policy changes, though she declined to provide details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also maintains that drivers are their own boss; that Uber is a digital platform (like eBay), not an employer; and that drivers are a lot like her own husband, who recently started a consultancy business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He doesn't get benefits. He doesn't exactly know what he's going to make. I mean, that to me is all of the risks, but also the potential reward, of being an individual small-business owner,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A case study in disruption\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A former federal regulator strongly disagrees with the Uber official's position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, I can't just declare a pigeon a duck because I think it should be a duck,\" says David Weil. He was head of the Department of Labor's wage-and-hour division under President Barack Obama. 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