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Uber Employs 200 Ex-Founders and CEOs. We Asked 10 for Their Lessons Learned.

We go to the experts.
Source: Robin Davey

The ride-hailing giant employs more than 200 ex-startup founders and CEOs. We asked 10 of them: What lessons have you picked up?

1. Stay focused.

“Having your own company is a lot easier than working in-house. Working at Uber is much busier. It’s easy to get caught up in the busyness here,

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