Travis Kalanick renames CloudKitchens' parent company as Atoms, focused on creating “gainfully employed robots” for the food, mining, and transport industries
Uber Technologies Inc. co-founder Travis Kalanick has launched a new venture that will focus on creating …
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Discussion
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@obrien
Chris O'Brien
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No one has the balls to whitewash history like a male Silicon Valley founder scorned. Though Elisabeth Holmes is giving him a good run for his money. [image]
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@balajis
Balaji
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Travis Kalanick is one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time. The bad guys took his company. But they never broke his spirit. He rebuilt from scratch. And now he's back.
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@travisk
Travis Kalanick
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Atoms. https://atoms.co/vision
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@tcarmody
Tim Carmody
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How much do the robots make an hour Travis — Are you paying payroll taxes for the robots Travis [embedded post]
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@cernovich
@cernovich
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🇺🇸
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@scottbelsky
Scott Belsky
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this is exciting to see in more ways than one
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@bznotes
Bilal Zuberi
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He's back, again... Building in the physical world. Computers for the physical world.
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@aphysicist
Aaron Slodov
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another reindustrialize fan, amazing
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@itzsuds
Sudarshan
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Ppl laugh when I say there's no job mentally harder than being a founder Externally it looks glam but it's a highly levered lottery ticket that mostly just leaves you broke & you're getting punched in the face 9/10 days TK is the definition of resilience, I look up to him a lot
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@semil
@semil
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must read. must bookmark. must revisit. [image]
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@tbpn
@tbpn
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EXCLUSIVE: @travisk says his new company Atoms will expand City Storage Systems' work into “more efficient mines for Earth's industries” and “a wheelbase for robots.” “There's a lot of room for specialized robots that do things in an efficient, industrial-scale way.” [video]
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@tod
Tod Sacerdoti
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Don't bet against @travisk. He is one of the valley OGs and am thrilled to see what Atoms has in store. https://x.com/...
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@uninsightful
Nikhil
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TK single-handedly willed into existence global ride-hailing — which has been *by far* one of the most societally-positive products of this century uber was on a path to dominate and accelerate innovation in every major category of transportation before TK got kicked out [image]
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@anmolm_
Anmol Maini
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would go in debt to back travis k ngl [image]
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@tbpn
@tbpn
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BREAKING: @travisk says he's relocated from California to Texas. “On December 18, I moved to Texas. I don't know what's so specific about December 18, but let's just say it's prior to January.” [video]
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@lexnfx
Alexei Oreskovic
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Wow... we're doing this again? https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
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@amir
Amir Efrati
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amazing timeline we are in- Travis Kalanick talking about acquiring Anthony Levandowski's self-driving technology startup and getting backing from Uber to boot [image]
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@stevekovach
Steve Kovach
on bluesky
What year is it [embedded post]
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@dmnd.me
Jeremy Diamond
on bluesky
Oh my fucking GOD [embedded post]
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@seanokane
Sean O'Kane
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an attempt to rehabilitate kalanick has been bubbling the whole time that the right has been “fighting woke” or whatever, so it's very funny that his re-emergence into the self-driving space is happening as that anti-woke fight has lost all its steam [embedded post]
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@jeronimofic.us
John
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I first read this as Travis Kelce, which would be better. [embedded post]