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Re:Bill Gurley Is Leaving Uber’s Board by amrrs on Thursday June 22, 2017 @07:01AM (#14611329)
He might have been a jerk, not all jerks get the same treatment of being covered in Front Page for every single issue. And that's what makes me believe it's inflated https://hackernoon.com/travis-kalanick-lost-today-hoping-to-...
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Re:Bill Gurley Is Leaving Uber’s Board by imron on Thursday June 22, 2017 @08:33AM (#14611756)
See above about sticking in the boot when in trouble. Some of that might be opportunistically sticking in the boot, but there's a lot less boot sticking if the person involved is not a jerk.

See also:

http://www.paulgraham.com/mean.html

And

http://www.paulgraham.com/safe.html

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