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Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 42:08 Harry Stebbings Um, and on top of that, then in the same week, we have Travis moves into robo taxis backed by Uber with a hundred million dollar investment from them, with him also, uh, hiring Anthony Lewandowski.
- ▶ 43:49 Rory O'Driscoll And then on the, um, the, the, um, Atoms thing, yeah, I mean, my guess is if you're Travis, you're going to want to scratch the itch of autonomy, right? 5 times in the scene
Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash
- ▶ 19:55 Harry Stebbings Um, you and Travis kind of went down this road already. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:48 Andrew Macdonald (Mac) Travis specific, like it was just crazy. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:48 Harry Stebbings Some of my friends who are old Uberites, who I'm sure you know, but I'll keep them out, um, say, if Travis were here, we'd be number one in food.
- ▶ 1:03:38 Harry Stebbings Um, okay, what's one thing that you most took from working with Travis? 6 times in the scene
Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings Then Travis Kalanick is back, baby, raising 1.7 billion dollars for atoms.
- ▶ 42:39 Harry Stebbings Travis baby is back. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:57 Harry Stebbings No, I know it's a very different end of the spectrum, but we said about kind of enabling, uh, the supply side of capital, venture firms, you know, providing people like Travis with huge amounts of money. 2 times in the scene
SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:43 unnamed speaker I mean, the Travis Kalnick devotees would say the failure, the cutting of their autonomous project in 2016 or 17 was a fatal error for Uber.
Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:00 Jeffrey Wu I just saw that Bill Gurley was tweeting that, um, you know, paid marketing is, like, the worst form of marketing, and I'm just like, hey, Uber, like, he's most well known for kicking out Travis from Uber, and Uber burnt, like, tens of…
NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:21 Jason Lemkin I think Travis Uber would be a trillion dollar company today because it would be five years ahead of where it is today.
- ▶ 48:24 Harry Stebbings I do want to talk about Travis Kalnick, um, came back in, in force with Atoms, um, it would, to be clear, eight years in stealth, thousand employees, rebranded city storage systems, and Cloud Kitchens, which is more well known, into this… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:55 Jason Lemkin The main thing when I saw the TBN interview, the main thing I thought was, um, if you were running Uber today, it'd be a trillion dollar company. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:15 Rory O'Driscoll It's so funny the way you answer that question, the way we, cause I, the same question I didn't process to any kind of internal analysis of Travis is calling soul. 7 times in the scene
The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI
- ▶ 1:08:55 Jason Lemkin Listen, I think it's fascinating because everything that Travis said in the early days at Uber has become true.
Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:34 unnamed speaker Replacing Travis Kalnick. 2 times in the scene
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:08 Harry Stebbings I always fall back to no great entrepreneur was stopped by regulation though, which is like Travis wasn't stopped by regulation with Uber, uh, Elon with SpaceX wasn't stopped by regulation.
20Product: Figma CPO on How Figma Builds Products: What Works, What Does Not | How Figma Does Testing and Product Reviews | The Future of Design, Engineering and Product with Yuhki Yamashita
- ▶ 52:16 unnamed speaker Travis, the CEO at the time, was just like, yeah, this is about principles, and he was very insistent that part of the magic is the transparency, and we're gonna go change the industry, and everyone else is gonna follow, so we might as…
20Product: How Scale AI and Harvey Build Product | Why PMs Are Wrong: They are not the CEOs of the Product | How to do Pre and Post Mortems Effectively and How to Nail PRDs | The Future of Product Management in a World of AI with Aatish Nayak
- ▶ 16:01 Aatish Nayak Like way back when it was super fascinating to see that this was when like, this was kind of like their heyday to TK and everyone was like really going at it.
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:00 Shervin Pishevar I believe if Travis and Emil had stayed at Uber, Uber would be a trillion-dollar company by now. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:47 Shervin Pishevar There was this kind of, you know, realization that I had an eye for talent, and then that led, later led to meeting Travis, uh, many years later, and getting that sense of like, oh, this, this, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:00 Shervin Pishevar Um, and so I was in lowercase as a seed investor and Naval Ravikant had introduced me to, to, to, um, to Travis over email. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:17 Shervin Pishevar And then Travis also, because I was very involved with, with Uber, I was on the board, uh, as a board observer 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:31 Shervin Pishevar Uh, I think, you know, watching an entrepreneur of Travis's, uh, quality, um, is, and being able to work with him very closely. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:24 Shervin Pishevar Um, it was the one time I saw Travis hesitate. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:47 Shervin Pishevar Yeah, so Travis, yeah. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:01 Shervin Pishevar Um, you know, TPG was one of our LPs at Chirpa, so we brought them into, into Uber, and they put, like, eighty-three million, and then Google didn't want to share, they want the, the whole two hundred fifty million dollar, you know,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:31 Shervin Pishevar We were like, ok, we're gonna have, Rider Zero was, was, uh, Travis's parents, his mom and dad, uh, and then Rider One, I was, I was having dinner with Edward, and I was like, you know, why don't, why don't we, and he was like, I'm going… 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:24 Harry Stebbings Could Travis have pushed back and said, release the letter? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:17 Shervin Pishevar So I remember calling Travis and being like, hey, um, we won, um, your three board seats are protected, like appoint them now. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:29 Shervin Pishevar If you don't want out of the company, let's get you out and let Travis continue. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:33 Shervin Pishevar I believe if Travis and Emil had stayed at Uber, Uber would be a trillion dollar company by now. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:59 Shervin Pishevar Um, but they were only in the company for like six years when, when Gurley went after Travis. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:43 Harry Stebbings That was handed to Travis. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:10 Shervin Pishevar It was very powerful, and if we had done that at Uber, because Travis was beloved, so was Emil. 5 times in the scene
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:01 Mike Maples We're competing against Travis Kalanick, who's a freaking maniac, who I respect a lot, but I'm like, you know, he's not a fun guy to compete with.
Scott Gorlick: How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers & The Uber’s Expansion Playbook | E1196 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:24 Scott Gorlick So I decided to email Travis at Uber.com, not thinking that I would hear anything. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:04 Scott Gorlick In the early days, uh, we all, I think, reported in, all the cities reported to Ryan Graves, uh, who was the first CEO before Travis.
- ▶ 29:35 Harry Stebbings Do you think they did that over time in the maturation of Uber as a company with the transition of TK out and Dara in, do you think they slowly ingratiated that the regulator is our, the regulator is our friend, friendly face? 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:14 Harry Stebbings I, I still can't get over the first email to Travis at, um, but thank you so much for joining me, and I've so enjoyed this.
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:12 Delian Asparouhov Travis committed no crime. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:16 Delian Asparouhov And so, you know, I wish that, you know, Bill Gurley's, you know, firing of Travis, you know, was, you know, sort of talked about more publicly about how morally depraved that entire basically situation was so that people can choose to opt…
- ▶ 44:28 Delian Asparouhov But perhaps those benchmark LPs would have made even more money if Travis was still CEO, 3 times in the scene
Nikesh Arora: Lessons from $102BN Market Cap & How to Create & Sustain Competitive Advantage | E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:59 Nikesh Arora And, you know, both Travis and Dara eventually got to a point where they made it work.
Bastian Lehmann: How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN | E1137 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:03 Bastian Lehmann And, and you, the, the, what is remarkable is if you have people two, three years ago that talk about it, they're like, ah, Dara, you know, at some point, maybe, you know, Travis comes back, and this, the whole Apple thing, you know, we…
Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:30 Phin Barnes That Travis would figure out UberX. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:42 Harry Stebbings Does Travis, when he starts Uber, need to know that it's going to go beyond, you know, chauffeurs in an explicit way? 2 times in the scene
Is the VC Model Broken? Jason Lemkin, Mike Maples, Eric Paley & Harry Stebbings Debate | E1062 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:12 Mike Maples Like, when, when I was involved with, Anne was involved with Lyft, right, while Eric was involved with Uber, like, Travis is gonna raise a ton of money and go to every city in the country and every city in the world.
Mudassir Sheikha: The Meeting that Led to $3.1BN Buyout: The Battle Between Uber and Careem | E1056 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:45 Mudassir Sheikha It was both Dara and Travis, and Dara had just joined or was going to join, and Magnus and I met both of them.
Scooter Braun on Being Enough, Insecurity, Wealth, Investing, Fame, Marriage and Much More | E1002 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:05 Scooter Braun Travis is one of the best founders I've ever met my entire life.
Dara Khosrowshahi: How I Became CEO of Uber; Uber Eats vs DoorDash; The Postmates Acquisition | E994 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:21 Harry Stebbings What was the best and the worst thing you inherited from Travis? 7 times in the scene
Adam Grenier: The Inside Story to Uber’s Hypergrowth; How We Spent $1B/mo in China | E989 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:39 Adam Grenier Travis came in, it was like, wait a minute, what about drivers?
a16z GP Jeff Jordan: The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces | 20VC #966 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:50 Jeff Jordan I did not anticipate, uh, uh, Travis getting capped at Uber Eats. 2 times in the scene
Martin Escobari: How to Invest During a Recession; Negotiation Tips; Developing Markets | 20VC #948 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:29 Martin Escobari So, one of my mistakes as an investor is, uh, Anton, my friend, uh, Anton Levy, co-president of the farm, invited me to look at Uber, the two billion dollar round, because of the international opportunity, and we went, and we met Travis,
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:32 Emil Michael Um, and all the while Travis not really wanting to sell the company, but I knew we had to because of the regulatory heat and 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:45 Emil Michael One, Travis had to attend one meeting to get it done. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:57 Emil Michael Um, I was taken out with Travis because benchmark capital lost their nerve.
- ▶ 39:50 Emil Michael Travis went on six months later to start 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:39 Emil Michael And it started with Travis sort of being invited to a business council 4 times in the scene
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: How to Build Moats Against Incumbents; How to Hire Engineers | 20VC #931 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:15 Tarek Mansour One example that I always think about is Travis from Uber.
20VC: The Memo: Chris Sacca on Why We Are Breeding a Generation of Entitled Assholes, Harley Finkelstein on What Great Fatherhood Really Means, Deena Shakir on How Kids Make You a Better Investor and Anne Wojcicki on How Children Change Your Approach to R
- ▶ 10:59 Chris Sacca You know, I go back to when everyone was like, why didn't you fire Travis? 2 times in the scene
20VC The Memo: Inside the Growth Engines of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Instacart with the Growth Leaders Who Built Them; How Instagram Went from 440M to 1BN, How Twitter Changing Their Signup Flow was a Needlemover and How Removing Card Payment Requ
- ▶ 8:15 Harry Stebbings What were some of the biggest takeaways from working with Travis and seeing that hyper growth at Uber firsthand? 4 times in the scene
20VC: David Friedberg on The Framework for Business Value Creation, The Bifurcation in Venture Today That No One Talks About, The Impact of Interest Rate Hikes on Venture and Step by Step; How TPB Incubates, Funds and Exits The Next Generation of Companie
- ▶ 12:31 David Friedberg They do not think they would have as successful as they were if Travis was still CEO of Uber. 2 times in the scene
20Growth: Five Key Functions of a Growth Team, The Biggest Lessons Starting Uber's Growth Team and Scaling Facebook's, How To Structure The Hiring Process for Growth and What Separates Good From Great in Growth Leaders with Ed Baker, Former VP of Growth @
- ▶ 21:42 Ed Baker So when Travis, the CEO of Uber was interviewing me, he actually gave me a challenge problem about Uber promo cards. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:17 Harry Stebbings Maybe when you think back to yours with Travis or others, Paul, what is that optimal relationship? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:24 Ed Baker In fact, we were told by our CEO not to run that test because he felt so strongly against it, but we had so much conviction that would make a big difference that we secretly ran the test just as a small experiment. 4 times in the scene
Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:46 Chris Sacca You know, I go back to when everyone was like, why didn't you fire Travis? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
- ▶ 26:47 Chris Sacca You know, I go back to when everyone was like, why didn't you fire Travis? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
- ▶ 13:50 Marcelo Claure I mean, meeting ByteDance, meeting Travis in his early days at Uber, you know, there was always an interesting meeting.
20VC: Mike Lazerow on Why How You Operate As a VC Is More Important Than Who You Are and What You Have Done, Why Boards Are More Important for the Entrepreneur than Investor & How The Best Entrepreneurs Prep Their Boards & Extract Value From Them
- ▶ 38:21 Mike Lazerow Kevin Systrom and Travis from Uber and, you know,
20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 16:39 Cyan Banister And so let's look at Travis from Uber, for example. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:15 Cyan Banister And basically it was when I met Travis for the first time at an offsite event that I was on. 5 times in the scene
20VC: Mark Cuban on His Relationship To Wealth and Risk, Why Coming Out of The Pandemic Will Be The Best Time In The History of Mankind To Start A Business & Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Like Old Hollywood
- ▶ 26:29 unnamed speaker I hear you met Travis and Uber at Seed. 6 times in the scene
20VC: Webflow's Vlad Magdalin on The Journey To Breakeven and Raising A Monster $72m Series A, The Single Most Important Question To Ask When Determining Which Investor To Select & The Challenges of Founders Angel Investing
- ▶ 29:06 Vlad Magdalin I mean, you see the stuff that we work, you see like Travis having to leave Uber.
20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
- ▶ 30:48 Zach Coelius I had a massive argument with Travis about whether or not Uber would work, and at that point in time, I was not an investor. 2 times in the scene
20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
- ▶ 24:38 Fritz Lanman I called up the guys, Emil and Travis at Uber and asked them, you know, what is their opinion?
20VC: Why Valley Investors Are Really Gamblers, Why The Business Model of Selling To The Biggest Sucker Is Wrong & Why The Best Potential Hires Don't Care Who Your VC is with David Barrett, Founder & CEO @ Expensify
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Point, OpenView, Uber's Travis Kalanick, Baseline, and SV Angel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:09 Harry Stebbings What are the biggest takeaways from working with Travis at Red Swoosh? 5 times in the scene
20VC: Michael Dearing on 5 Key Principles He Uses To Assess Startup Founders, Why Benevolent Dictatorship Is A Beautiful Thing & Why Markets Are Better Capital Allocators Than CEOs
- ▶ 23:14 Harry Stebbings Does this change today, then, with the likes of Travis at Uber? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Jason Calacanis on The 4 Questions Investors Must Ask Founders, Whether YC Have Scaled Their Process Successfully & Why Early Founder Liquidity Is Good Not Bad
- ▶ 20:56 Jason Calacanis Because if you ask somebody like Travis, why are you doing this, this being Uber, or what are you working on to Marco at Thumbtack, they're going to show a level of enthusiasm that
20VC: Why Every Founder Should Bootstrap Their Startup, How To Solve Information Asymmetry Between Founders and VCs & Living In A Cupboard For Two Years To Fund StyleSeat with Melody McCloskey, Founder & CEO @ StyleSeat
- ▶ 15:53 Melody McCloskey Oh, well, our first seed round, my very first, well, my first two advisors and angel investors were Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick.
- ▶ 21:53 Melody McCloskey Travis's house three days a week for like a year, and then it became Jenny Lefcourt, who after, you know, as the needs have changed for the business, the, my mentors have changed.
20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
- ▶ 25:29 Rebecca Lynn So the biggest miss was Uber and Travis Kalanick was actually in my office with 3 times in the scene
20VC: Do VC's Really Hustle Enough? The Takeaways From Watching Twitter Scale From 30 to 2,500 & Why Chris Sacca Is Like Yoda with Ryan Sarver, Partner @ Redpoint
- ▶ 3:39 Ryan Sarver Fast forward many years, I move out to San Francisco, like my first or second week in San Francisco, I'm sitting at a dinner, and, uh, the guy sitting next to me is Travis Kalanick, and we're chatting 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:32 Ryan Sarver There's the cliche things, like, make sure you're working in big markets, or markets that you think can get big over time, uh, and then I think, you know, having, being close to Travis and Ryan Graves and Garrett, kind of the early days of… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:04 Ryan Sarver But I think what got us excited about that was I'd been close with Travis and Ryan and Garrett and kind of the early Uber days.
20VC: What Is Wrong With The VC Industry, Why VC Is A Customer Service Game and Why Car Ownership Will Be A Thing Of The Past with Brett DeMarrais, Partner @ Ludlow Ventures
- ▶ 7:34 Brett DeMarrais So there's a common emotional experience that I think, you know, most entrepreneurs go through, whether you're, you know, Travis at Uber or you're Joe in Iowa, you know, running a plumbing company, whatever.
20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- ▶ 23:33 Dave McClure Uh, Travis, uh, gave me the opportunity to invest in June of
20VC: Why Every Employee Should Re-Apply For Their Job Every Year & The Strategies To Prepare For A Successful Fundraise with Kyle Hill, Founder & CEO @ HomeHero
20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid
- ▶ 19:10 David Cohen Ryan was a mentor in the Techstars Boulder program, and he was mentoring on his drive from the East Coast to the West Coast, so Travis tweeted that he wanted someone to essentially operate UberCab, as it was known at that time,
20VC: Why More People Should Be Entrepreneurs & How Do You Know When You Are Ready with Matt Clifford @ Entrepreneur First
- ▶ 10:52 Harry Stebbings I always think of Travis Kalanick with that. 2 times in the scene
Uber's First Investor, First Round Capital's Rob Hayes on How The Deal Of The Decade Originated and Why Product Orientated VC Is The Future
20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing
- ▶ 4:43 Matt Mazzeo Aaron Battalion, and Travis Glanick, and Garrett Camp, and people who now, I think I would have been intimidated in that moment in time, but I was totally unintimidated, largely by my own ignorance of, uh, of who they were.
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Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
- ▶ 4:04 Jason Calacanis Well, I'm obviously delighted with, you know, how the company's turned out, but it's not unexpected that this would become an important company, because the founder, Travis, um, who I've known for 15 years, um, when I was a journalist, I… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:53 Jason Calacanis You know, for me, um, I, when I can get lost in the moment in a conversation, and it's like that magical kind of thing, whether it was, you know, Mark Cuban or Travis a couple times, uh, David Sachs has been great, Evan Williams has been…
- ▶ 36:32 Jason Calacanis There's enough people on the planet who I'm good friends with, and I try, you know, Travis and I are very good friends, you know, from Uber and have been for a long time. 3 times in the scene
20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Who's incubated startups include the likes of MDOT, TechCrunch, and Travis Kalanick's Red Swoosh.