FailCon 2011 - Uber Case Study

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters recommend it for insight into Kalanick's background and how his past failures shaped his mindset at Uber.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

BAMM.TV

Topic

startup failure

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2012–2017

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• 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. …

• 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] [VIDEO]

• 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). [VIDEO]