Conrad Whelan, the company’s first engineer, recalls spending every day in the office, from 7:30 a.m. to midnight, including weekends, for three weeks straight before the Paris launch. ‘This is the biggest thing I will say about Travis,’ he told me years later. ‘He came to us and said, “Look, we are internationalizing and launching in Paris,” and every single engineer was saying, “That is not possible, there is so much work, we will never be able to do it.” But we got it done. It wasn’t perfect. But that was one of those moments where I was like, “This Travis guy, he is really showing us what
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