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Uber’s Travis Kalanick shows how growing up is much harder than simply growing

Lashinsky is the executive editor of Fortune

ON A BRISK NIGHT LAST JULY, I TOOK A LONG WALK through the streets of San Francisco with Travis Kalanick, from Uber’s headquarters in the gritty Mid-Market neighborhood to the Ferry Building on the waterfront and nearly to the Golden Gate Bridge. Kalanick likes these walking meetings. It’s how he got to know Anthony Levandowski, a former Google self-driving-car engineer, whose company Uber bought, only to have Google parent Alphabet sue Uber for

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