{"id":1423,"date":"2026-03-14T19:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T19:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2026-03-14T19:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T19:17:27","slug":"travis-kalanick-sees-benefits-of-stealth-mode-you-build-a-culture-of-people-that-want-to-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=1423","title":{"rendered":"Travis Kalanick sees benefits of stealth mode. ‘You build a culture of people that want to build’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Uber cofounder Travis Kalanick unveiled a robotics company for the food, mining and transport industries after being in stealth mode for eight years.<\/p>\n

The new company is called Atoms and sprang from his real estate company, City Storage Systems, which owns ghost-kitchen operator CloudKitchens.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole idea was can you get a meal that\u2019s prepared and delivered to you so efficiently that it starts to approach the cost of going to the grocery store,\u201d Kalanick said on the TBPN show on Friday. \u201cBecause if you do, you do to the kitchen what Uber did to the car.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also said that he\u2019s on the verge of acquiring Pronto, a self-driving startup focused on industrial and mining sites that was created by former Uber colleague and Trump official Anthony Levandowski.\u00a0The Information first reported the deal and said the company also has backing from Uber.<\/p>\n

Kalanick was ousted as Uber CEO in 2017 via a shareholder revolt amid allegations that he ignored reports of sexual harassment\u00a0at the company.<\/p>\n

Google also sued Uber for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to autonomous driving. Levandowski was convicted but avoided prison after getting a pardon from President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

During his interview on TBPN, Kalanick acknowledged the challenge of running Uber during intense public scrutiny and \u201cdealing with 100 headlines every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I was just like, I gotta wake up every day and sort of just get to work and build,\u201d he recalled. \u201cSo I went under the radar.\u201d<\/p>\n

But that also meant thousands of his employees were not allowed to put the name of the company on their LinkedIn profiles. That\u2019s despite choosing a purposely nondescript name, City Storage Systems, after previously toying with the idea of calling the company \u201cSuper.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, he decided to go \u201cfull underground, full stealth\u201d\u00a0which created some obstacles when recruiting talent to the startup.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have a name like City Storage Systems, and it\u2019s like, \u2018so do you guys just have like these these boxes sitting in parking lots?’\u201d Kalanick said.<\/p>\n

But there are advantages to being in stealth for so long, he added. For one, he said he has the best recruiters in the world.<\/p>\n

Flying under the radar also attracts a certain type of employee and contributes to a more progress-oriented, unselfish environment. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you get when you create a culture around that is you have you then build a culture of builders,\u201d Kalanick explained. \u201cYou build a culture of people that want to build and do not need to be famous when they do it, which basically means emotional intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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