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    1. If Uber fails, or even if Kalanick is booted, it provides a series rebuke to Silicon Valley's cult-of-the-founder. nyti.ms/2sbkOub
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    Uber's current state challenges the entirety of the tech startup culture's philosophy.
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      The brogrammer, crunch culture, founder as universal genius and executive, coding skills equal biz sense. Uber embodies them all.
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        If this was a just world Uber's failures would undercut Silicon Valley's dominant philosophical underpinnings. Sadly, not a just world.
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          More than that, Uber is the ultimate hyper capitalist proposition. It only succeeds if it can practically monopolize multiple verticals...
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            That stance and proposition as a business strategy is clearly bullshit. Now, more than ever.
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              Someone from Uber once asked me why they are challenged me on problems their competitors also have. It is because Uber dictates the standard
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                Lyft, for example, is a challenger, Uber chose the philosophy on which the stage of competition was set.
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                  Uber didn't just choose to use these awful systems and philosophies. It chose to exemplify them. Its failures fall to those choices.
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                    Hmmmm nytimes.com/2017/06/13/technology/uber-travis-kalanick-holder-report.html?_r=0
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