Uber sought 'strategic investors' in foreign media to win government favor
Sarah Ellison - Douglas MacMillan, Alice Crites, Petra Blum of WDR, and Felicity Lawrence of the Guardian contributed to this report.
Uber's global ambitions came up against a major obstacle in September 2015: Its path into the lucrative German market was slowed by unfavorable legal rulings and resistance from the powerful taxi industry. But one executive had an idea to win over the leaders of Europe's biggest economy.
"They have a problem, and we have a solution," Ryan Graves, senior…
