[dylanjermiah]

I have yet to see any 'evidence', or personal insight. Yet you seem to think you understand a man, whom you've never met nor interacted with, and his deep personal motivations. Based upon his 'public persona'. You don't see anything odd about that?

[beatpanda]

No, I don't. His public persona is what he is choosing to project to the world. It amounts to the things he wants us to know about him. And more importantly, one is what one does, not what one intends.

[dylanjermiah]

"One is what one does, not intends"

I couldn't agree more. Travis (and the team) has created $51bn of market value, provided cheaper and more efficient transportation to tens of millions of people in hundreds of cities all around the world. He's fought, and defeated, corruption of city officials in many locations all around the world. Uber has and will have a massive positive impact on tens/hundreds/thousands of millions of people in the world (with the self driving vehicle). How he's portrayed in the media is largely irrelevant, to me at least.