Travis Kalanick says he wouldn't do 'anything different' about the missed Uber-Lyft acquisition
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Kalanick framing the non-acquisition of Lyft as a cultural mismatch underscores how hard it is to buy your way out of a structural rival. In AI and autonomy, assume that the most direct competitor is also the least likely to be a clean M&A target—build for coexistence, not consolidation, by default.
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