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A few uber employees showed up in a thread yesterday and showed support for Kalanick. One employee comment i found interesting wrote: Travis had a deep empathy
by subroutine 9y ago
A few uber employees showed up in a thread yesterday and showed support for Kalanick. One employee comment i found interesting wrote:
Travis had a deep empathy for the challenges of building successful products, and would offer tremendous grace and thoughtful advice to his team solving problems in the trenches. When projects went sideways, and we presented numbers that were less than stellar, Travis was both empathetic and optimistic while offering actionable guidance and a path forward.
"Bro culture" is a loaded term and the wrong one to describe the environment Travis cultivated. He had tremendous focus on the problems at hand and pushed his team to operate with a sense of urgency to solve them. If anything I think he cared too much about each individual problem, which propelled his teams forward but sometimes left him too deep in the details of his business rather than focusing on the big picture.
- totalZero 9y agoInteresting. For me the strange part is that it's written like a eulogy.
- Lordarminius 9y agoMaybe it is. The odds against a TK comeback to Uber as CEO at this point are very high.
- ben_jones 9y agoAs in it leaves out any bad parts?
- subroutine 9y agoWell, I think most people are already aware of the bad parts (which was very apparent context of the original thread).
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- meowface 9y agoIn their minds, it is. He built the company from the ground up and was forced out of it by external forces. The loyalists are mourning his loss. Of course, that interpretation differs if you think his being forced out was justified.