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494. Why Do Most Ideas Fail to Scale?

Freakonomics Radio

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The Power in Balances of Scaling Up

In your book, john ra i don't believe travis calnick is a bad person. He's a good person who made several bad calls at scale. And you write about uber's problems under calanic, including a toxic work culture. So end up leaving uber for lift, their smaller rival. But calani was ultimately kicked out of the company by the board.

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