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He was the right person, with the right attitude, and the right amount of drive to build Uber. But instead of shifting gears into building a sustainable, welcom
by muninn_ 9y ago
He was the right person, with the right attitude, and the right amount of drive to build Uber. But instead of shifting gears into building a sustainable, welcoming, ethical business, it went into overdrive. Without a force of personality it's hard to envision somebody upending the taxi monopolies, or creating a term for something "let's grab an Uber".
This obviously doesn't exclude all the bad things that have happened, and his poor judgement, but there's some good along with the bad that we should look at, I think.
Anyway, I think Uber is largely done for with or without Travis. Maybe time will prove me wrong, but I fail to see, aside from "hey let's grab an Uber and the ubiquity of the term", Uber doesn't offer anything that can't be either easily replicated (Lyft or others), or is a difficult task that they are simply not the market leader in (autonomous vehicles) nor do they look to be in the future.
I don't foresee a very good future for the firm, either way. We'll see.