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You come to Uber, you're going to work your ass off. And if you're not performing, we're going to let you know.
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>> But do you ever worry that they might not be able to deal with the truth?
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>> Then they can leave because the most important skill in life is the skill of
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working hard. And when you see the top athletes, Ronaldo, Michael Jordan, of course they're talented. But the thing
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that's different about them is they work their asses off. And that's a learned
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skill. That's not something you're born with. You may be smarter, more talented,
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etc. But I'm not going to let anyone outwardly. with that mentality. >> When you joined Uber, Uber was losing 3
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billion per year. Now it generates 8.5 billion in free cash flow every year. But it seems that you were forged in
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such a way that you were going to be relentless. >> Yeah. And it really started with being
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born in Iran with the Islamic Revolution in 1978. We were not safe there. And I remember at one point we had these
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revolutionary guards come into the backyard and bullets went through our living room. So my family came to the US
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to rebuild their lives. >> You were 8 9 years old. >> Yeah. And it really destroyed my dad.
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Sorry me. It's tough for me to talk about it. Second. All right, let me try again. Seeing that
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has put me on a road where I just wanted to make my family proud. So I studied bioelect electrical engineering and then
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my first job was investment banking and I got to see the process of big companies being built and then I had the
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opportunity to take over Expedia >> and in your 12 years as CEO Expedia sales increased from 2.1 billion to 8.8
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8 billion and you were the highest paid CEO of a US tech company >> and I left it all behind to get over
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>> and I want to get into practical company building how you would get that company
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to work hard and create a culture of continuous improvement and all that stuff but there's an alien that's
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arrived amongst us which is AI now driving I think is one of the biggest employees in the world like as a
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profession >> I mean we've got 9 and a half million drivers and couriers on our platform
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>> those drivers careers that you have will be out of work being honest about the
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situation what do the 9 million people