Dara Khosrowshahi

During his seven years as Uber’s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi has helped make the ride-hailing and food-delivery service the industry’s leader, outlasting a long list of rivals including Lyft. In the process, he’s guided Uber to financial health following years of big spending and the initially devastating impact of the pandemic. In 2023, in a major milestone, Uber reported its first annual profit as a public company. Over the first six months of 2024, overall revenue rose nearly 16% to $20.8 billion while profits soared nearly 46% to $345 million. Looking ahead, Khosrowshahi, a former CEO of Expedia, hopes to make Uber a “super app” for booking all kinds of travel, not just car rides. And he must figure out how to compete in the still-nascent robo-taxi era, in which Google’s Waymo is already several steps ahead.