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" I talk a lot about justice. I'm about it. I'm also about civil disobedience. "

Travis Kalanick
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" At Uber, we say, 'Always be hustling.' Even if you are an introvert and you haven't got hustle in you, you better get a co-founder who does. And if you haven't got enough hustle to find a co-founder who's got hustle, it's going to be tough. You've got to have a little hustle in you. "
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" Think of a world where there is no ride-sharing; people are driving themselves to work. You now have 30 people being served by 30 cars. Those 30 cars are only served 4% of the day; 96% of the day, they're stored somewhere. Around 20% to 30% of our land is taken up just storing these hunks of metal that we drive around in for 4% of the day. "
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" Even before you get to self-driving vehicles, there's just a huge amount of positive things that happen to cities when you do ridesharing. "
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