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if the company's whole success is dependent upon the original vision being executed you have to either leave the founder in there or replace them with someone who also has the same skill set and interest in doing that right when you replace them with the opposite personality and they're basically told don't do anything like the old guy did then by definition yeah you're shutting down the potential that you invested
when the board replaced travis they should have replaced him with someone equally aggressive and visionary and i think by putting dara in there from my perspective good manager seems like a nice man but the underlying vision that would have made uber a multi-hundred billion dollar company um took someone different to pursue he hasn't pursued that
if uber was able to deliver the value proposition that initially envisioned it wouldn't need to put taxi on there right that now effectively by equating everything what it says in a way is yeah we may not be that better after all
know while it was a smart move and the stock went up as a result of it it's also sort of an acknowledgement that the original uber vision didn't quite work or at least wasn't quite executed
we were able to mobilize ultimately millions of people to weigh in on Uber's behalf over a period of a couple of years, and that's how we won
every policy output is shaped by a political input and that's it. You have to assume that every decision made by every politician is solely based on reelection and nothing else. And if you understand that you could then impact the decisions they make. So we think about it. If you're a politician, all things being equal, you raise money from taxi, you do what they want, right? Because that's, that's how you kind of raise money. Then all of a sudden we're able to start sending thousands, sometimes
this was a seminal moment, I think in the history of tech startups, because previously making software, you know, it wasn't like you were running into the government or the real world all that often.
we sent an email from Travis to all of our customers saying, look, if you like this thing, you want to keep using it. We need your help. And the course of a week, 50,000 people organically, you know, reached out to the city council and said, I want this thing. And not only did we kill the bad bill, we passed our bill unanimously, including voted for it by the sponsor of the bad bill who then voted for us.
we could turn our customers into political advocates and use them as a countermeasure to tax these kinds of political muscle and lobbying.