Super Pumped
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The analogy is a great one, only not the way Bill frames it.
Jackson was a master at managing big egos, but they could not be corralled.
His bit of staging does little to convince Travis to lean on him for advice.
Travis is fully in You know whats cool?
A billion dollars mode, dismissing the private jets as if they were cheap balsa-wood airplane models.
Hes after Larry Ellison money.
To him, Bill writes the checks.
Any other input smacks of helicopter parenting, if not outright treachery.
Bill isnt an idiot.
He sees it coming because hes seen it before.
They did actual, provable miracles.
How do you see the split now?
Oh, theyre all Koresh.
The taxi system lacks the flexibility to set its own price on demand.
It also lacks themoralflexibility (and technical sophistication) to eliminate threats through extralegal means.
This involves using a digital tool called Greyball to identify individual riders like Erich and deny them service.
He treats employees as disciples, turning his Sermon on the Mount into a raging kegger.
The hangover that follows will throb forever.
As withBillions,Super Pumpedis loaded with pungent references to pop culture.
Here, Travis calls transportation agencies more incestuous than the clans inDeliveranceand twice as likely to fuck you over.
