How do you compare the public persona of Travis Kalanick with the actual person?
Replied byTravis Kalanick
Founder & CEO at Atoms
Niche: Technology
Revenue: Not Publicly Disclosed/month
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Started: 2018
The public persona and the actual person are completely different. The media turned business into politics, creating narratives that perverted the truth. My intensity came from my early startup years where I went without a salary and struggled to buy groceries. I ran a massive company with the precision of someone afraid of starving.
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