The heads of software and strategy at Uber’s self-driving car division are leaving, according to an internal announcement Friday morning by the unit’s leader Eric Meyhofer. The company trails several rivals in terms of the capabilities of its prototype vehicles. The departing software executive, Jon Thomason, joined three years ago and oversaw hundreds of engineers who were trying to improve a...
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The People With Power at Robinhood

Last year, as Robinhood’s trading activity boomed and legal problems mounted, the $11.7 billion startup shook up the ranks of its senior staff. The turnover means many top employees will be relative newcomers at the time of its anticipated public listing this year. The Menlo Park, Calif., company saw the departures of its head of international expansion and its general counsel, among...
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