The Ledger
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Kalanick: Companies should operate just inches away from legal boundaries
“I like to go to the line. We should be like a few inches off the line. That's a good thing to do.”
Kalanick: Leading 20,000 people requires being hardcore without being bad
“How do you lead 20,000 people and get them oriented towards a beautiful mission? And those 20,000 people are great minds, optimistic, good people. How do you do that? You can't do that by being a bad person. But you have to be hardcore.”
Kalanick maps manufacturing, real estate, and logistics to computing infrastructure
“CPU manipulates the bits. Storage stores bits. Network moves bits from point A to point B. But if you're digitizing the physical world, you're treating atoms like bits. And you're like, well, I know that CPU manipulates the bits. What manipulates atoms? That's…”
Kalanick: Avoiding confrontation forces teams to settle for mediocre ideas
“There's so many people that are not willing to fight for the best idea because they're going to upset somebody else. And if you don't fight for the best idea, then what idea are you fighting for? You're fighting for the mediocre idea, the politically expedient…”
Kalanick: Specialized robotics companies must own their own autonomy technology
“Because if you're going to be in the specialized robotics game, you have to have autonomy for yourself. You have to. Your robots are act, are moving and acting in the physical world, and you cannot depend of, on only one company that has an existence proof.”