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Nomination created on August 18, 2026

Uber founder. Serial entrepreneur.

Learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs. Every week I read a biography of an entrepreneur and find ideas you can use in your work. This quote explains why: "There are thousands of years of history in which lots and lots of very smart people worked very hard and ran all types of experiments on how to create new businesses, invent new technology, new ways to manage etc. They ran these experiments throughout their entire lives. At some point, somebody put these lessons down in a book. For very little money and a few hours of time, you can learn from someone’s accumulated experience. There is so much more to learn from the past than we often realize. You could productively spend your time reading experiences of great people who have come before and you learn every time." —Marc Andreessen
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“Their first episode together happened yesterday and we already need a round 2 of all the questions Travis didn't get to!”
My conversation with @travisk, founder of Atoms and Uber. 0:00 Building Atoms & the Meta Problem of Management 3:51 The Appeal of Impossible Problems: Starting Over in China 12:19 Uber vs. Didi: Copycats, Hypergrowth & China's Rules 21:02 How Network Effects Become an Efficiency
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