Uber is going to choose a new CEO in 4 minutes. Now 5 minutes. S*** now it’s 11 minutes away, why is it going in the opposite direction | | | | James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano in "The Sopranos" (1999).
(Anthony Neste/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Uber is going to choose a new CEO in 4 minutes. Now 5 minutes. S*** now it’s 11 minutes away, why is it going in the opposite direction”
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