Huffington: Uber CEO Travis Kalanick no longer views exhaustion as a badge
Ariana Huffington · a16z Podcast | Sleep! · Jan 2, 2019 · at 27:21
Arianna Huffington, author of The Sleep Revolution and Uber board member, discusses her private conversations with Uber CEO Travis Kalanick about founder burnout and productivity.
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“In the meantime, Travis and I have had a lot of conversations about sleep. His views of sleep have changed. Like many of the founders, as we talked earlier, he too believed that being perpetually exhausted was a badge of honor. And a sign of being incredibly passionate about his startups, many of which failed, and he has finally recognized that when he's operating on all cylinders, when he has actually taken the time to sleep and recharge, he makes better decisions.”
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