Evidence receipt / observation
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: observation
11 May 2019 Acquired The Uber IPO
“Sometimes when you have a situation like that, the only way to break the logjam is just with somebody who doesn't know any better.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- observation
- Recorded
- 11 May 2019
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- The Uber IPO
Transcript context
…Did Seamless bail on the idea after that? They immediately bailed on the idea. The meal delivery was working great. As the voicemail said, Jason had a young family. I would do the exact same thing if I were in his position. That was the end of Seamless Wheels. Of course, everything ended up great. Seamless Meals, like we said, ended up merging with GrubHub and is doing great today. Sometimes when you have a situation like that, the only way to break the logjam is just with somebody who doesn't know any better. He doesn't know or he doesn't care. We've got two people, one who doesn't know and one who doesn't care. In the middle of 2008, a Canadian entrepreneur who is in Silicon Valley by this point, had started a company back in Canada called StumbleUpon. This is, of course, Garrett Camp. Of course, mark time, we are 22 minutes into this episode, and now discussing somebody involved in the founding of Uber.…
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