Yaseen Aslam doesn’t immediately strike you as the kind of person who’d take on one of the world’s biggest tech companies — and win. He’s softly spoken with a chuckle never far from his voice, and it isn’t until a couple of hours into our meeting that he lets on a little about the personal toll his fight with Uber has taken.
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