FailCon 2011 - Uber Case Study on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2012–2017.
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Travis Kalanick's talk at FailCon 2011 about his earlier failed startups, given as a case study before Uber's rise. It describes lessons from those ventures.
HN commenters recommend it for insight into Kalanick's background and how his past failures shaped his mindset at Uber.
“I would really recommend watching this talk[1] TK gave at Failcon back in 2011.”
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
I would really recommend watching this talk[1] TK gave at Failcon back in 2011. It's a great insight into Travis's background and the mindset that he imbued into Uber in the early days. [1] ▶ this video
in “Uber CEO Kalanick likely to take leave” · View on HN
This is a valid criticism, but is mitigated a little by the fact that some of these success stories include within them wisdom from preceding (or competitive-contemporaneous) failures. This is even the case, indirectly, where the Startup School presentation can't fit the speaker's whole story. For example, I think the Travis Kalanick presentation about Uber at Startup School was great. (I'd love to see the time-unconstrained 'two-hour' version of the same talk.) But, it was just about Uber: a current big success. Kalanick also did a shorter -- and perhaps even better -- talk about his previous ventures at the 2011 FailCon: ▶ this video Combined with the SS12 Uber presentation -- indeed, perhaps best viewed just before -- it provides real context, and a much better idea of the range of outcomes and challenges startups face. And, of the entrepreneurial qualities that gave Kalanick repeated chances at Uber-like success.
in “Startup School And Survivor Bias” · View on HN
I've found this video from 2011 to be kind of interesting in terms of illuminating how his history as an entrepreneur has shaped his attitude running Uber today (TL;DR - he failed and got screwed over a lot). ▶ this video
in “Travis Kalanick reportedly sought to reassert control at Uber after ouster” · View on HN