The Exchanges

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Q And, um, how did you fall in love again? Or did it take you? How did you handle this?

A The interim period between sort of the, well, yeah, I mean, you had a really interesting situation. I think headlines and the negative, the negativity in the headlines from that period of time. And, and you could really say the extreme wokeness That was sort of coming in on, on Uber and trying to constrain it, if that makes sense. There's this interim period. It was like seven, eight months between when I left and when I started what's now called Adams. And I had to sort of fight for my life because there are just a number of lawsuits, a number of investigations, all these things where it was just like, I, I continue to stand by every decision I made at Uber. Uh, but, you know, there are a lot of times where you could just make the argument, I just got way too close to the line. And then, yeah, I could show that there's no chalk on, on the shoe. I could show, but you would need a electromagnetic scanning microscope to see that there was no chalk on the shoe. You reverse angle, slow-mo, and it's just like, that's, the problem is, is the edge of, Being a, what's the word, a hard scrabble, small startup kid, brought to something that's working and going super big.

AI assessment note: “It was like seven, eight months between when I left and when I started”

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Q And, um, how did you fall in love again? Or did it take you? How did you handle this?

A The interim period between sort of the, well, yeah, I mean, you had a really interesting situation. I think headlines and the negative, the negativity in the headlines from that period of time. And, and you could really say the extreme wokeness That was sort of coming in on, on Uber and trying to constrain it, if that makes sense. There's this interim period. It was like seven, eight months between when I left and when I started what's now called Adams. And I had to sort of fight for my life because there are just a number of lawsuits, a number of investigations, all these things where it was just like, I, I continue to stand by every decision I made at Uber. Uh, but, you know, there are a lot of times where you could just make the argument, I just got way too close to the line. And then, yeah, I could show that there's no chalk on, on the shoe. I could show, but you would need a electromagnetic scanning microscope to see that there was no chalk on the shoe. You reverse angle, slow-mo, and it's just like, that's, the problem is, is the edge of, Being a, what's the word, a hard scrabble, small startup kid, brought to something that's working and going super big.

AI assessment note: “I continue to stand by every decision I made at Uber.”

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