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Travis Kalanick is back: How Uber’s ousted founder went from pariah to Silicon Valley hero
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In 2017, it looked as if the tech world had seen the last of Travis Kalanick.
Key facts
- He’s the Steve Jobs for founders of my generation,” says Kush Bavaria, who has raised $33 million for his AI data startup Ornn
- In May of 2019, less than two years after Kalanick was forced out of Uber, Khosrowshahi achieved what he had not: an IPO
- An Uber executive later mused to a group of journalists that the company could spend $1 million to look into “your personal lives, your families” and, in the case of Lacy, prove a specific rumor
- In 2017, it looked as if the tech world had seen the last of Travis Kalanick
Summary
Kalanick’s ouster also signaled a bigger cultural shift. That may have felt true in 2019, when the book was released, but since then much has changed. It seems to be working for him. In a recent series of video appearances, Kalanick doesn’t seem to have changed much.