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Uber’s best known corporate value is probably Super Pumped, which, in addition to being a one-time company value, is also the title of Mike Isaac’s account of Uber and the subsequent television show. However, for me personally, the value I remember most is Let Builders Build. Working in Uber’s infrastructure engineering organization, I once chatted with a product engineering manager who wanted to continue rolling out a new feature that was hammering the production database.

Uber’s best known corporate value is probably Super Pumped , which, in addition to being a one-time company value, is also the title of Mike Isaac’s account of Uber and the subsequent television show. However, for me personally, the value I remember most is Let Builders Build . Working in Uber’s infrastructure engineering organization, I once chatted with a product engineering manager who wanted to continue rolling out a new feature that was hammering the production database. I was concerned that ramping up usage would cause wider application instability, and believed they needed to optimize t

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