New CEO hints Uber could go public in 18 months

Uber could go public as soon as 18 months from now.
That was the news delivered to Uber’s 16,000-person workforce today by the embattled transportation company’s new chief executive, outgoing Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, according to an employee who attended the meeting.
Khosrowshahi wasn’t definitive, the person said. In a meeting that was broadcast from San Francisco across the world, he said the 8-year-old company could go public in a timeline of 18 to 36 months, but he wo