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> That's a really powerful quote from John Sculley. /s/John Sculley/Steve Jobs/
Not sure why you're being downvoted - it's from Jobs' famous Stanford commencement speech. http://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jobs-061505/
Perhaps with a sustained PR onslaught that will now magically disappear even if nothing material changes at the company?
PS the rest of the Uber story is IPO in 5..4..3..
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FYI, the WSJ recently launched a partnership with my startup, which gives our users free access to unlimited WSJ content. Our app and Chrome extension are free also. www.ReadAcrossTheAisle.com
This is great news, I was just thinking that I was annoyed at their paywall... What's the catch?
See my response to a sister comment for more details!
While I do agree that the culture at Uber was toxic and ultimately Travis was to blame for that, on a human level I do feel for the guy. At the end of the day, he just lost his mother and now also his life's work for the foreseeable future. And damn that must suck.
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FYI, the WSJ recently launched a partnership with my startup, which gives our users free access to unlimited WSJ content. Our app and Chrome extension are free also. www.ReadAcrossTheAisle.com
It appears the extension would like to read and change the data on any website I visit. I assume users are the product here, so this appears somewhat sketchy since I'm not sure what personal data of mine is being sold.
The reason that permissions are needed is that the extension monitors how long you read on each website. But that data never leaves your computer — it's just used to compute the stats we show you in your dashboard.
Read Across The Aisle is related to my main startup, BeeLine Reader, and it was just something we did for fun, and to help with polarization of news consumption.
Perhaps with a sustained PR onslaught that will now magically disappear even if nothing material changes at the company?
Non-paywall version?
window.location.href='http(s)://m.facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);While I do agree that the culture at Uber was toxic and ultimately Travis was to blame for that, on a human level I do feel for the guy. At the end of the day, he just lost his mother and now also his life's work for the foreseeable future. And damn that must suck.
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Not sure why you're being downvoted - it's from Jobs' famous Stanford commencement speech. http://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jobs-061505/
Perhaps the original reply was (in a subtle way) pointing out that Sculley might not be as pragmatic about his own firing from Apple?
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