SAN FRANCISCO—Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick will step down from President Donald Trump’s economic advisory council after criticism from customers and drivers.
Kalanick’s participation on the council, along with more than a dozen other U.S. executives, prompted blowback on social media after Trump’s controversial executive order on immigration. It snowballed into a #DeleteUber campaign.
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Uber’s CEO wrote in an email to employees Thursday that “immigration and openness to refugees is an important part of our country’s success and quite honestly to Uber’s.”
“Earlier today I spoke briefly with the president about the immigration executive order and its issues for our community,” Kalanick wrote in the email obtained by Bloomberg. “I also let him know that I would not be able to participate on his economic council. Joining the group was not meant to be an endorsement of the president or his agenda but unfortunately it has been misinterpreted to be exactly that.”
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