Acquired
The Uber IPO
Every company has a story.
Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them.
Show Notes
Welcome to the big one. On the day of its IPO, we tell the story of Uber. It’s a story whose roots stretch back 130 years, but whose impact reverberates perhaps more powerfully on our current world than any other. A story that, in all of its greatness and in all of its ugliness, may just be the story of our time.
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Austin Geidt’s incredible journey: https://youtu.be/-NjaqDMYNVs
Travis’s self-introduction as “the Wolf from Pulp Fiction”: https://youtu.be/VMvdvP02f-Y
Travis interview on TWiST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=550X5OZVk7Y
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