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The big debate: Can Uber's Kalanick do a Steve Jobs and make a comeback?

Will 40-year-old Kalanick be able to make the spectacular comeback that Jobs managed in 1997?

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Rajeev Peshawaria
At thirty, Steve Jobs had already revolutionized personal computing, and was a global celebrity. But in 1985, thanks to a power struggle in the boardroom, he got fired from the very company he had created. Fast forward to 2017, and Travis Kalanick has just faced the exact same fate after fundamentally disrupting the taxi industry. The point here is not that history is repeating itself in Silicon Valley, because many an icon have fallen in disgrace in the business world, and will probably continue to do so. The key questions are: How do these two exits compare, and will 40-year-old