The best companies that we've invested in, the founders had an almost messianic belief that they were going to change the world, and they were irrationally persistent in the face of all evidence to the contrary. The ones that failed often had founders who were more rational — they saw the evidence, they updated, and they quit.
I would say that there would be no Uber today as it is without Travis and how he was. You know, when many cities, governments, regulators are saying this is illegal stop, to have such steadfast belief that this was going to be good for riders, good for drivers, good for cities, and to still push on with that belief
What I realized what she was doing was she was kind of testing my conviction, right? And she probably got a lot of calls from people who said, "Oh, I want to do this. I want to do that." And she's like, "Well, if you have the conviction in yourself to move out with no job, that shows you really kind of want it."
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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
