The Operator
Execution, delivery and performance, gets the hard thing done.
Dara Khosrowshahi reads as The Operator because his leadership of Uber is defined by execution rather than spectacle. He runs one of the world's most scrutinised platforms with a steadiness that treats complexity as something to be managed, not dramatised.
“Yeah, I'm really, I mean, it's interesting to see how people are innovating. I thought, quite frankly, I thought this played pretty well to the Democrat's strengths. I thought some of the speeches felt very cooked and rehearsed. And you obviously don't have the electricity.”
“Of a supply demand imbalance, and there always typically is that favors the corporation versus the worker of medium and low skilled workers, that the only thing that ever structurally helps here is unions.”
“I think Uber is hoping and Lyft are hoping that the consumer goodwill or the consumer addiction to these products leads them to weigh in on public officials and public officials back down. Just as De Blasio back down when he threatened to tax them or basically legislate them out of existence, I don't know if that goodwill is still there.”
“You know what this is? So, do you know what fracturing is? Fractoring is when you go in and this nice cosmopologist takes this laser staple gun and staples a bolt of lightning into your face and then you convulse and about five minutes into it you decide you'll stay ugly and you run out of there. This is literally the ultimate Botox.”
The Diary of a CEO: “Uber CEO: At Uber, If You Don’t Perform, You’re Out! Uber Was Losing $3b A Year”
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