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The Uber IPO

Acquired

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The Wolf in Pulp Fiction

Travis Kalanick was born in 1976 and grew up in a suburb of Los Angeles. His father, Don, had served in the army and was a civil engineer for the city of L.A. Travis is incredibly smart and very much a human, as we will see,. He essentially turned himself into a jock, but he didn't stop studying either and turn off his brain. And this is something that comes through that I think has gotten lost in the story of Uber and Travis over the last two years.

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