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For decades, technology entrepreneurship has been revered, and people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk were heroes.

The emergence of Uber X was really the most important pivot maybe in the history of Silicon Valley. It's a vast majority of Uber's revenues, and so that flexibility and the rapid growth and the fighting the battles, it's all Travis. You can't take any credit away from him.

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I think Facebook has a lot of work to do to make sure people are seeing meaningful things and not garbage.

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As we have seen again and again, when Amazon doesn't get the economic conditions from suppliers that it seeks, it simply goes its own way. In the book business, that has meant publishing its own titles under the various Kindle imprints. Now it's making diapers.

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Ultimately, Amazon is a weather pattern that disturbs everything around it.

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Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary... That has always been a potent combination.

Brad Stone

For decades, technology entrepreneurship has been revered, and people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk were heroes.

Brad Stone

Airbnb's genius was moving into cities and recognizing that millennials would want to go and maybe spend a vacation or visit some friends in an urban center.

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I don't think value to the customer is achieved at the expense of employees' welfare.

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Airbnb is a company with values around hospitality.

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On Sept. 12, 2016, there was a momentary realignment in the constellation of global business. For the first time, the five largest public corporations in the world by market capitalization were all technology companies: Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon.com, and Facebook.

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Amazon is famously run by studying and responding to its own data; yet when it comes to promotions, decisions are often subjective and guided by human emotions and petty political dynamics.

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I don't think we yet know - because it's probably not big enough - what exactly Amazon does to our cities, but whatever it is, I don't anticipate retail wastelands. If anything, it's maybe a wake-up call to retailers that they just have to offer something meaningful to customers.

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No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and revealed.

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I think for Amazon's customers, it offers a kind of addictive service - the ability to shop without leaving your house, the ability to read without going to a bookstore or a library.

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Uber, and Airbnb to a different extent, implemented the same battle plan. Bezos is an investor in both companies and, to some degree, has relationships with both CEOs. It is not a surprise that they are heirs to Amazon.

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With tough interpretation of taxi and zoning regulations, neither Uber nor Airbnb would have gotten started. By the time many cities recognized their existence, both were fairly large and had the political support of their customers.

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I spend a little bit of time exploring why the companies that were doing smartphone ride-hailing before Uber, why they failed.

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Uber's issue, I think the biggest one is driverless cars. That could be a complete reset to the business.

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