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I was thinking about this last night after listening (paradoxically) to a podcast from ESPN about Phil Jackson and Steve Jobs. This was The Dan Le Batard podca

I was thinking about this last night after listening (paradoxically) to a podcast from ESPN about Phil Jackson and Steve Jobs. This was The Dan Le Batard podcast from Thursday and they talked about return stories. Dan posited the line from The Dark Knight "you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain" and asked if Phil Jackson had become the villain (the context here is Phil jackson's problems with the New York Knicks and the conversation around how unlikeable he's become to fans of NBA basketball compared to his status first at the head coach of the Jordan area Chicago Bulls and early career Kobe Bryant era Lakers) Producer Mike Ryan then brings up Steve Jobs and his exit from Next and eventual return to Apple. That's what got me thinking, would it even be possible in today's hyperspeed/"always on" media world for Kalanick to return or even foist the conditions for a return to Uber or whatever Uber becomes the way Steve Jobs did with Next and eventually Apple?

mc32 9y ago
I think it's possible if Uber bumbles along for a while. Jack returned to Twitter --under way different circumstances, but still, I don't think it's inconceivable that if Uber goes south enough, even investors who pushed him out might have a change of heart.
- iamdave 9y ago
  Allow me to take the easy answers off the table and ask you to remove the scandals ongoing and ask: what would it take for Uber to go under enough for those conditions to take place as you put them? I ask as a person who lives in a town that watched both Uber and Lyft leave in protest of local regulations, watched those same companies lobby my legislature for laws that effectively neutered municipal code, watched Uber and a Lyft return operations, and is watching competitors that sprung up in the vacuum quickly die. With Truckload of chagrin. It's a very strange but fascinating thing to watch at the local level so I'm always curious to hear how others look at the behemoth.
  - mc32 9y ago
    Thinking off the top of my head I would say a conservative leadership which would allow a challenger to gain an upper hand and render Uber a flagging company. I think that scenario is possible if the management devote too much of their energy on overcorrecting internal matters.

mc32 9y ago

I think it's possible if Uber bumbles along for a while. Jack returned to Twitter --under way different circumstances, but still, I don't think it's inconceivable that if Uber goes south enough, even investors who pushed him out might have a change of heart.

iamdave 9y ago
Allow me to take the easy answers off the table and ask you to remove the scandals ongoing and ask: what would it take for Uber to go under enough for those conditions to take place as you put them? I ask as a person who lives in a town that watched both Uber and Lyft leave in protest of local regulations, watched those same companies lobby my legislature for laws that effectively neutered municipal code, watched Uber and a Lyft return operations, and is watching competitors that sprung up in the vacuum quickly die. With Truckload of chagrin. It's a very strange but fascinating thing to watch at the local level so I'm always curious to hear how others look at the behemoth.
- mc32 9y ago
  Thinking off the top of my head I would say a conservative leadership which would allow a challenger to gain an upper hand and render Uber a flagging company. I think that scenario is possible if the management devote too much of their energy on overcorrecting internal matters.