Uber老板前女友曝猛料：高管们喜欢玩模特

优步（Uber）首席执行官特拉维斯·卡兰尼克的前女友加比·霍尔茨瓦近日披露了这家拼车公司职场文化的更多细节。

在接受《赫芬顿邮报》采访时，这位曾经与卡兰尼克约会三年直至去年8月的音乐家和业务发展经理表示，优步有着贬低女性，摧残心灵的环境。

霍尔茨瓦现年27岁，谈起与硅谷这群男人为伍的经历，她表示：“你每次去参加活动，都会有一大群模特涌入。他们喜欢和模特玩。差不多就是这样了。”

她补充道：“作为一名缺乏安全感，努力维护身体形象的女性，我最好的做法就是离开那个规则令人难以忍受的不健康环境。”尽管她也感谢卡兰尼克协助她从饮食失调中恢复过来。

接受《赫芬顿邮报》这次采访之前，她曾对The Information网站表示，优步的几位高管（只有一位是女性）曾在2014年造访首尔的卡拉OK酒吧，还点了几位身上有号牌的女性陪侍。

霍尔茨瓦说，她和卡兰尼克还有那位女性高管没有留下来看之后发生了什么。不过这件事让那位女性高管投诉了优步的人力资源部。

霍尔茨瓦声称，她本无意透露此事。不过优步业务部门的高级副总裁埃米尔·迈克尔几周前给她打电话，请她对2014年的事情保守秘密。据说，由于职场歧视导致优步的公关形象大损，迈克尔担心泄露这件事会让优步雪上加霜。

她对《赫芬顿邮报》表示：“我不想保持沉默或是对别人说谎。这让我感到不适。为保守他们的秘密，我这三周过得很艰难。”

但是迈克尔不认同她在The Information的报道中对于电话的描述。

他对该网站表示：“考虑到现在舆论形势紧张，我认为有必要找到她，让她知道记者可能会试图直接联系她。我认识她很长时间了，把她当作朋友，不希望她对此措不及防。她对这段对话的看法与我很不一样。我打电话的本意被误解了，对此我表示非常遗憾。”（财富中文网）

作者：Aric Jenkin

译者：严匡正

Gabi Holzwarth, the ex-girlfriend of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, has revealed even more details on the ride-sharing company's workplace culture.

Holzwarth, a musician and business development manager who dated Kalanick for three years up until last August, said the environment surrounding Uber was misogynistic and psychologically damaging in an interview with the Huffington Post.

“You go to an event and there’s just a bunch of models they’ve flown in,” Holzwarth, 27, said, regarding her experience with the men of Silicon Valley. “That’s what they like to play with. That’s pretty much it.

“As a woman struggling with my own insecurities and body image, the best thing for me was to leave that unhealthy world of impossible standards,” Holzwarth added, though she credited Kalanick with assisting with her recovery from eating disorders.

Holzwarth's interview with HuffPo comes after she told The Information that several Uber executives — all but one of them male — went to a karaoke bar in Seoul in 2014 and selected escorts wearing tags with numbers to join them.

Holzwarth said that she, Kalanick and the female Uber executive did not stay to see what happened, but the incident prompted the female executive to file a complaint with Uber's human resources department.

Holzwarth said that she had no intention of speaking out until Uber senior vice president of business Emil Michael called her several weeks ago asking her to keep quiet about the 2014 incident. Michael was reportedly afraid that the story might leak with Uber in the midst of a PR meltdown over workplace discrimination.

“I don’t want to be silenced or lie for somebody else. It made me feel uncomfortable,”Holzwarth told HuffPo. “[It was a] tough three weeks of hiding their secret.”

But Michael disputed her account of the phone call in The Information's report.

“Given the intense news cycle I thought it was the right thing to do to reach out and let her know that reporters may try to contact her directly,” Michael told the site. “I have known her for a long time, consider her a friend and did not want her to be taken by surprise. Her recollection of this conversation was different from mine and I am very sorry if the purpose of my call was misunderstood.”