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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Travis Kalanick comes up
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.