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The Upstarts

by Brad Stone
🎧 24 min listen Biography & Memoir

The wild true story of how two startups dismantled industries and remade daily life.

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In the early 2010s, two scrappy startups with no hotels
and no cars set out to upend billion-dollar industries.
Brad Stone takes you inside the rooms where Travis
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