Uber scrambles to prevent employee exodus

Company's senior leaders have made impassioned pleas reassuring them it is worth sticking around

In the days after Travis Kalanick stunned Uber Technologies Inc.’s more than 15,000 employees by resigning as chief executive, the company’s senior leaders made impassioned pleas reassuring them it is worth sticking around.
 
Managers including Uber’s chief technology officer, Thuan Pham, and the company’s first CEO, Ryan Graves, now a senior vice president and board member, praised Mr. Kalanick and urged employees to carry on his legacy—tarnished as it may be—and to turn their focus back to work, according to emails reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
 
“I don’t know what tomorrow will bring, but whatever it is,