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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
1 Mar 2017 Acquired The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store
“A big one that I really want to talk about is company culture and its impact on business trajectory. I think that Uber is one that has been a win-at-all-cost company.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 1 Mar 2017
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…I feel like we’ve been touching on it as we often do throughout the show but let’s jump into tech themes. Ben, what do you have? A big one that I really want to talk about is company culture and its impact on business trajectory. I think that Uber is one that has been a win-at-all-cost company. Brad, you mentioned in your book that Airbnb defined its mission and values very early and Uber didn’t really. Their mission and values were just keep going and win. I think you have a more eloquent way of phrasing it. But it’s really something where they’re massively living a scorched earth behind them. They’ve won so far through credible boldness and strong-headedness and they’re leaving – like everybody has a different reason to be pissed off at Uber. It seems very true predictively and reasonably.…
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