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Travis Kalanick's new investment fund's name is trucker code for taking a piss


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Ousted Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is roaring back into the spotlight with a big announcement, and it's all about taking a piss at a truckers' rest stop. 

Oh, wait, no it isn't. It just that the new investment fund he unveiled Wednesday on Twitter just so happens to share its name with the CB code truckers use to describe taking a badly needed bathroom break. 

"Today I'm announcing the creation of a fund called 10100 (pronounced 'ten-one-hundred'), home to my passions, investments, ideas and big bets," he wrote in the statementRead more...

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