Kalanick's secret sauce: rage, apparently
Travis Kalanick resurfaced on a16z's podcast to talk about his new industrial AI company Atoms, reportedly backed by the biggest check Ben Horowitz has ever written. But the real quotable moment was Kalanick admitting that after his fourth or fifth company, adversity stopped stressing him out, and that's a problem. Why? Because being pissed off, he says, is what makes entrepreneurs actually good. Success made him too comfortable, and comfort is the enemy of hustle.
Nothing screams billionaire wisdom like bragging you're not angry enough anymore.