Ben Horowitz says Travis Kalanick kept rare founder presence even at Uber’s scale
annbordetsky · x · 2026-07-23
Ben Horowitz says Travis Kalanick had an unusually strong personal presence at Uber’s massive scale: employees across a 10,000- to 20,000-person company still talked about “the Travis review” and “talking to Travis.” Horowitz argues that this kind of founder intensity and problem-solving style is rare among real-world founders.
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