His is an American success story. At age 12, Pham escaped Vietnam with his mother and brother in a fishing boat that was reportedly carrying dozens of other refugees. After first spending 10 months at camp in Indonesia that he has described as having no sanitation and offering only a tarp over their heads, his family later arrived in Maryland and Pham, an excellent student, wound up studying at MIT.
Thuan
Pham, hired as Uber’s chief technology officer by former CEO Travis
Kalanick back in 2013, is leaving the company in three weeks, the
ride-share giant revealed today in an SEC filing that came out just as The Information reported that massive layoffs at Uber are being proposed to preserve some of the company's dwindling capital reserves.
The
outlet suggests the discussed cuts could impact upwards of 20 percent
of Uber's 27,000 employees, roughly 800 of whom could theoretically come
from Pham's engineering team, which currently comprises 3,800 people.
Said
an Uber spokesman to The Information's Amir Efrati: "As you would
expect, the company is looking at every possible scenario to ensure we
get to the other side of this crisis in a stronger position than ever."
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