Bill Gurley
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They should read Crossing the Chasm.
They should know how to organize a sales team.
There's just all this stuff you need to know that one place you can get it is at a business school.
But if you don't want to go to one, that's great.
But don't dismiss all of the learning as you, you know, crap on the notion of an MBA.
You might not need to go.
The subject matter is important.
Totally.
Yeah.
I don't know, but I'll take your word for it.
One of the things that I would push back on with what Kevin said is the best CEOs that I've talked to very much lead with the heart and have a, I'd say a passion for leadership that includes feeling like a shepherd of the flock.
And so I push back on that a little bit, like broadly against business.
The situation that we got into at Uber, there was a asset, the company that was shared by many constituents, you know, the employees, the investors, everybody.
And we, because of several things that had happened, things were in a bit of a free fall.
Yeah.
We had five state attorney generals after us.
We had this situation in London that was on fire.
We were losing market share to lift, especially in metropolitan areas very quickly because of brand erosion.
And
And by the way, it wasn't โ I think history and the press has made it out to be me.