Calm is when you get radical clarity around the mission and the vision and you get everybody lined up and bought in and have them help build that vision.
Real optimists are not cynics. You want critics in the organization, you don't want cynics because cynics don't trust you. Critics want to challenge the logic, they want to challenge the thinking, they want to interrogate, but it's not distrustful.
What I'm talking about is the same thing that we hear from CEOs around their energy that they get from change. Um their vision that things can be better for employees and for citizens.
For the last several years, we've basically gently ceded market share to the other players in the industry. And I came in and said, that's a no-go. That is unacceptable. We're going to win in the marketplace.
I looked close more closely at the opportunity and my view was how nice would it be to have a group of the best schools around the world that maintain the ethos and values of the schools that are part of the group, but yet share global best practices.
Getting a 2x over a decade is not what I think people were expecting from Uber under Travis's leadership. Uh, it and Lyft has fallen to just five billion. like he won the capital war and Dar has done a great job managing the business, but I feel like a lot of the success of Uber has been built on the foundation that Travis set up.
We have made a sustained and very deliberate investment over a very long period of time in original independent journalism. That's in journalists, and in the support system structure around them to make sure they can do extraordinary work.
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