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I'm guessing they decided that any valuation damage will only be short term. I suspect they are right.
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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That's a really powerful quote from John Sculley.
> That's a really powerful quote from John Sculley. /s/John Sculley/Steve Jobs/
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> That's a really powerful quote from John Sculley. /s/John Sculley/Steve Jobs/
I'm sorry that you have had to use Hipchat so much that you know this and use it outside of it. A human can truly get used to anything.
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.
He didnt feel an iota of moral responsibility for the rape victim in India whose medical records were obtained by an uber exec and were shown to Travis. I find it hard to have sympathy for someone who couldnt do the same for another human being.
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Perhaps the original reply was (in a subtle way) pointing out that Sculley might not be as pragmatic about his own firing from Apple?
It could be sarcasm likening Kalanick to Sculley.
Please note that Steve Jobs' life philosophy makes it pretty much impossible for him to say something bad happened to him, or that he did something bad.
NEXT taught him humility, that's the story at least, mostly because it failed miserably. Apple was failing under Scully, and Jobs was failing without Apple. They came together again and had a jolly good time.
Uber is likely to skyrocket in valuation now that the "ruthless expansion" fase is ending. Uber will now turn itself into a benevolent market keeper, so n i c e to everyone that it simply cannot be banned. I'll call this the "consolidation phase".
I think they learned this tactic from rape. First you get her really drunk and force yourself on her (ignore the law and just put your product out, obstruct law enforcement in every way, ruin your drivers' lives). Then you hug and say "you're so beautiful and sweet, god that was so amazing, I'm so happy we did this" and she just Stockholms herself into it. This way you avoid rape charges, and cognitive dissonance will maybe even turn you into a great lay instead (history will remember Uber's fantastic ruthless rise as a genius business move - rarely mentioning the funny murky bits).
Edit: sort of derailed there, but I meant it's unlikely this CEO will be seen again.
Aha. Now I think this makes more sense.
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He didnt feel an iota of moral responsibility for the rape victim in India whose medical records were obtained by an uber exec and were shown to Travis. I find it hard to have sympathy for someone who couldnt do the same for another human being.
So the probability of a competitor inventing such a claim was literally zero?
Enlighten us, which competitor made such a claim?