In a recent podcast, Uber cofounder Travis Kalanick discussed how intense competition from Chinese rivals like Didi Chuxing spurred innovation at Uber during the 2010s. The rapid imitation of Uber's features by competitors created a pressure cooker environment that ultimately led to a genuine culture of innovation, particularly evident in Chinese startups. Kalanick noted that this relentless copying was not only maddening but also impressed him, as it drove Uber to continually improve and adapt to maintain its market edge.
There's no way I could express the frenetic intensity of copying that they would do on everything that we would roll out in China.
I just couldn't believe it. We would do real hard work, make it, we'd dial it, and it would be epic and it would be awesome.
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