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Re:The Post-YC Slump by toomuchtodo on Thursday August 20, 2015 @02:20PM (#10093634)
Travis Kalanick is grinding super hard. Are people going to call him average when Uber fails? Elon Musk is grinding super hard, but he has different market and regulatory forces to contend with (no one stops you from going to space or making batteries and electric cars, everyone is going to stop you from breaking transportation and labor laws).

Being "superhuman" doesn't make you terribly more likely to succeed.

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Re:The Post-YC Slump by JonFish85 on Thursday August 20, 2015 @04:09PM (#10094354)
"Travis Kalanick is grinding super hard. Are people going to call him average when Uber fails?"

He'll be long gone before Uber fails. They're probably going to dump all of the liability onto the public markets, he'll probably resign to focus on other projects or some such, and leave some MBA schmuck to deal with the mess.

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