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Travis Kalanick and CloudKitchens
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- 0:00The founder Uber throughout built a $15
- 0:02billion empire. Nobody noticed. This is
- 0:04Travis Kalanick. In 2017, he was forced
- 0:07out of Uber. Scandals, a boardroom coup,
- 0:09the valley wrote him off. So, he bought
- 0:11real estate for delivery-only kitchens,
- 0:13cloud [music] kitchens, restaurants that
- 0:14only exist in your app. He built it
- 0:16quietly in dozens of cities out of the
- 0:18spotlight, reportedly worth around $15
- 0:21billion.
- 0:22Now, he's chasing AI and reportedly a
- 0:24TikTok bid. Getting fired from a giant
- 0:26isn't the end, it's the head [music]
- 0:27start. Follow for the builder economy.
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Original YouTube title: “Ousted From Uber, He Built a $15B Empire”. The original title may contain claims not confirmed by this companion.
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