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Travis Kalanick on starting over after Uber: "I acquired CloudKitchens, partnered with a buddy of mine, Diego. There were six people in the company that I acquired." "You gotta think, the last all-hands I did had 20,000 people. The next all-hands I did had six. And I stood in... show more

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Viola Davis says action movies are seen as "just commercial" despite her training five hours a day, six days a week "When you do an action movie, for instance, and the word action is in front of it, there is something that brings it down a peg from artistic merit" "I did the weight training five hours a day, six days a week for three months at 56. I did all the training for five months on the ground in the jungles of Africa" "And then you'd have to do the dialect work, and then you have to do the emotional work, but somehow that is seen as just commercial"

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