David Senra · Aug 16Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber
Adams builds specialized robots for one industry at a time, starting with food and extending to mining, instead of humanoids. It aims for 20% more gold per year from mines it does not own, and runs many businesses with line leaders, alignment up front and accountability afterward.
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- Travis Kalanick limits how fast his company creates problems to match its capacity to solve them▶ 2:08He says the only constraint on his imagination is management capacity, so he builds capacity before taking on more.
- Travis Kalanick runs many businesses at Adams as problem solver in chief with alignment up front and accountability after▶ 1:41:58
- Travis Kalanick at Adams builds specialized robots one industry at a time instead of humanoids▶ 1:27:50He cites a large US food supplier spending $3 billion a year on labor moving pallets on forklifts.
