Uber's bad year: The stunning string of blows that continue to upend the world's most valuable startup

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Travis Kalanick

Reuters Staff

Uber was already off to a bad start in 2017, but the year is getting worse by the day for the $69 billion ride-hailing company.

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In January, Uber lost more than 200,000 customers in a single weekend after the #DeleteUber movement led to a fury of account deletions by customers upset about its ties to President Trump.

But that was just a prelude to Uber's no-good, very bad month. During the roughly 30-day period of mid-February to mid-March, the company was pummeled by a seemingly never-ending barrage of bad news, with a new crisis almost every day. And it's barely slowed down since then.

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Here's everything that's happened to Uber since things took a turn for the worse in February: