I'm Wistful for 2011 2012

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Uber had a lot of bad stuff that all sort of happened Seemingly all at once delete uber, but like how did we end up in a situation where shareholders were all looking at each other going We need to replace the ceo. Otherwise the company will destroy all the value. It's created So I think there are multiple threads to explore here one All the reasons I think we're wistful for 2011 2012 You know and things were just simpler and happier Uber was you know, it was at the forefront of all the stuff that Made now a less wistful time.

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