Uber's top lawyer reveals how the CEO convinced him to join the company he'd previously said he would avoid

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'Man, I'm glad I'm not the GC of that company,' Tony West said of Uber in 2017. Now he's the ride-hailing giant's top lawyer.

Uber's chief legal officer, Tony West celebrates the company's IPO with CEO Dara Khosrowshahi in May 2019.general counsel Tony West wasn't always so rosy about his outlook on the ride-hailing company.That all changed after a steak dinner with current CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. Now he's the company's top lawyer.

"What was supposed to be a thirty-minute meeting turned into an hour-long meeting," West said."We were talking about this incredible company which I had fallen in love with as a consumer years before. I was already someone who had it on my phone and used it all the time.

West saw it as a challenge custom-built for his skills acquired at Harvard, Stanford, the Department of Justice, and Pepsi.

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