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I've been following Levandowski since 2004, he was the crazy college kid with the autonomous motorcycle. For the past 13 years he's been at beating the heart of
by Fricken 9y ago
I've been following Levandowski since 2004, he was the crazy college kid with the autonomous motorcycle. For the past 13 years he's been at beating the heart of the development of the most disruptive new technology since, I don't know, the internet maybe? I wouldn't consider him a poster child, that would imply he's representative of some broader group of people, he's a little too much of an anomaly for that, there's no one quite like Anthony Levandowski. 'Millenial tech bro' doesn't quite summarize him, he's a force of nature, for better or for worse.
- RodericDay 9y agoA while back you posted --- Fricken 26 days ago [-] Kalanick is a Napoleonesque figure, a great conqueror who doesn't know when to pull back on the reigns, because he knows nothing else. Our memories are short, we're skewering him for being exactly the kind of animal that not to long ago most everyone was rooting for. --- I just want to drop by to make it absolutely clear that there's many, many, many of us who've always hated Uber/Kalanick and seen right through the facade. You shouldn't assume "most everyone" holds the same opinions as you.
- Fricken 9y agoI was never rooting for Uber, I never said I was. I'm fascinated by Uber, I try to remain objective in my analysis, I don't think they're good guys. When they rolled into my city, I was the lone contrarian in my local subreddit saying 'Hey man, watch out, they play dirty', and getting downvoted into oblivion. I've never actually taken a ride in an Uber. For normal people outside the insular realm of tech news, I don't know anyone who's even paying attention to their borderline shenanigans.