Super Pumped
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The arc ofSuper Pumpedand Travis Kalanicks run as CEO of Uber is basicallythe reaping/sowing memefrom Twitter.
Travis spends the early episodes doing all kinds of sowing (Haha fuck yeah!!!
Now comes the reaping (Well this fucking sucks.
The show is beyond caring about how any of this affects Travis.
Ambition has hollowed his soul.
Enter Dan OSullivan, a left-wing journalist from Chicago.
Eat shit and die.
People posted screenshots before nuking the app from their phones.
As Austin tells him in a fury, What youre doing is dicking around.
you better start listening to the people here, the people who helped you build this company.
Because the people here, they hate him.
And they are starting to really hate you.
Traviss confidence never wavers through all of these problems which, of course, is a problem in itself.
Uber was built on his unchecked swagger, the notion that only assholes could get the job done.
He cant be expected to gearshift to humility.
And then Ill do that shit and people can stop freaking out.
Theyre still bros, after all.
Uber is a bro culture to the end.
Off the Meter
The show again gets too cute with the gimmickry in this episode.
A better break-up might have kept the Seoul story from coming out.
It turned out to be a costly shit forMr.
Levandowski, who would need Donald Trump tokeep him out of jail.
And applying conventional morality to worlds most brilliant minds is insanity.
Last week, the journalist Olivia was a stand-in forPandoDaily editor-in-chief Sarah Lacy.
Much more of that story to come in next weeks finale.
