Dara Khosrowshahi: Người đàn ông có khuôn mặt đẹp

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...His 16-year-old son jumped in with an assist. “My dad’s a lizard person,’’ he said. The teenager said he had found a random (ngẫu nhiên) post on the internet about a conspiracy theory (thuyết âm mưu) contending that his father, Queen Elizabeth, George W. Bush and Bob Hope are all lizard people. “They’re reptilian aliens (người ngoài hành tinh) that can shape-shift (biến hình) and control the world (kiểm soát thế giới),” he explained. “Just know that if you pour water on him, he will melt. If he gets aggressive (hung hăng, hiếu chiến), don’t move. He can only see you if you’re moving.”

...“We work with him at Uber Eats and that’s fine,” Mr. Khosrowshahi said. (Mr. Kalanick has a new start-up, CloudKitchens, which rents commercial space (không gian thương mại) and turns it into shared kitchens for food delivery businesses.)

...“When coronavirus hit, we pulled back pretty aggressively,” he said. “We got out of some businesses. There are certain times where you should be conservative. And there are certain times where you go for it.”

He said he “didn’t have enough time to be depressed or to feel sorry.” As he was frantically (điên cuồng) trying to figure out if the company — already losing billions — could survive losing, in some places, 85 percent of its rides business, he discovered “a glimmer moving fast”: Uber Eats, an arm of the business he had been pouring money into for the previous two years, despite many investors being unhappy about it.

...“When I joined, Eats was a $2.5 billion business,” he said. “We’re going to be over $50 billion now. Eats on a volume basis is going to be bigger than Rides chiefly because with Eats, we’re going to go to grocery (quầy tạp hóa) and we’re going to the pharmacy (tiệm thuốc) and we’re going to every single local commerce category. It’s a bigger market.”

It hit him, he said, that all the businesses he had been shedding — scooters, electric bikes, autonomous cars, flying cars — “were a distraction to the mission. People are going to start moving again and this business — get anything and everything that you want in your house — was going to be bigger than any of us thought it was going to be.”

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