This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers.Insider identified dozens of current and past power players at top-secret startup CloudKitchens.
Travis Kalanick oversees thousands of employees with impressive resumes, but you can't find them on LinkedIn. The following lists don't encompass all of the company's leaders, especially those who work internationally. But it offers the most comprehensive collection yet of the people working at one of the nascent ghost kitchen industry's biggest – and most secretive – organizations. City Storage Systems, the CloudKitchens parent company, started small, and all but one employee remain with the company.
Berdakin shares an office with Kalanick, and sources say he could sometimes change Kalanick's mind about business decisions. The pair divides responsibilities at CloudKitchens, with Kalanick primarily focused on the tech side and Berdakin overseeing the physical product, which includes buying real estate globally.
Some of these power players lead company-wide units, like top lawyer Mohit Abraham, while others focus on specific efforts like Otter, the company's in-house software that aggregates online orders for restaurants, or Future Foods, the virtual restaurant arm. Kalanick set up CloudKitchens, which goes by other names internationally, similarly to Uber. Local general managers enjoy significant autonomy in their regions and often don't communicate formally amongst themselves.
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