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Uber is the smartphone app that allows users to summon an Uber-registered vehicle to the curb nearest you. Travis Kalanick is the brilliant UCLA-grad who has kept his startup, Uber, rolling in dozens of cities despite lawsuits and cease-and-desist letters originating from the complaints of taxi companies.<\/p>\n
Since Kalanick argues Uber is technically a software company, he defends his ride service app by saying it shouldn\u2019t be bound by the same laws and regulations as other ride hail companies. Uber customers are also happy to speak up to defend the service they use (and pay, on average, 1.5 times more for than a ride from a taxi). So, despite the cease-and-desist letters, Kalanick presses on.<\/p>\n
With his legendary tenacity, Kalanick is taking Uber into areas beyond rides, though. His investors are interested in the app\u2019s ability to transport anything on a moment’s notice within local boundaries, challenging the likes of other shipping and mailing services and piquing the interest of companies like Amazon and Google.<\/p>\n
Perseverance has earned Kalanick mixed results in the past. His first co-founding pursuit was in a peer-to-peer file search engine, similar to Napster. We know how that startup ended. The defeat of Scour seemed to fuel Kalanick\u2019s ego. He took that loss personally and fought for years to make his second venture a $23M success.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t smooth sailing though. That success only came after fall-outs with colleagues and friends, and going without a paycheck for nearly three years. While Kalanick has reportedly said he has \u201c1000 things more important to do\u201d than giving an interview, we dug up some quotes from the guy who is 3.5 years into what is easily his most successful startup yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got really good at negotiating from a place of weakness.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery time you add complexity to your business model, it just makes it harder for suppliers and your partners to understand it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJamming on ideas, rapping on what\u2019s next is what entrepreneurs do.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStand by your principles and be comfortable with confrontation. So few people are, so when the people with the red tape come, it becomes a negotiation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end of the day you still have to make something people want. You have find a way to produce it. You have to find a way to distribute it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a list of the hardest, most challenging problems that our company needs to solve and I start at the top and work my way down. And I have a list of the coolest most fascinating things that we can invent and I start at the top of the list and I work my way down.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn a lot of ways, it\u2019s not the money that allows you to do new things. It\u2019s the growth and the ability to find things that people want and to use your creativity to target those.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen something\u2019s fun, it\u2019s obvious. That\u2019s when you just need to do more of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFear is the disease.\u00a0Hustle is the antidote…\u00a0Whatever it is that you\u2019re afraid of, go after it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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