Point was that Uber’s co-founder and ex-CEO Travis Kalanick named Ayn Rand as his favorite author. So I thought of him as an example for someone who has not “gr

Point was that Uber’s co-founder and ex-CEO Travis Kalanick named Ayn Rand as his favorite author. So I thought of him as an example for someone who has not “growing out of“ Rand’s “objectivism”. I find it very fitting that is apparently has led him to the kind of one-sided success you are describing. And, if I remember correctly, his ousting from Uber started with him preaching the libertarian gospel to one of his company’s underpaid drivers. It seems to me that is precisely what the other commentator was trying to say with “growing out of it“. Ayn Rands books are really good and revolutionary and one should read them, perhaps even multiple times. But one probably shouldn’t take them as the final answer to the questions of life.