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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Uber comes up
Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:05 Mike Shebat Um, and I'll give an example for Uber drivers are hard to acquire.
- ▶ 54:27 Mike Shebat So on, on Uber eats and door dash, people want different cuisine types.
- ▶ 59:09 Mike Shebat With Uber in a lot of countries that, like, like France, like Netherlands, Egypt, and even though most of the population may have a certain culture, I do think that being very unapologetic and saying this is what we are, and you can opt…
Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:54 Jeff Seibert And he said, well, it had flashbacks to Uber because when Uber was going against the taxi industry, the NPS scores on taxis was so bad, right? 2 times in the scene
Matteo Franceschetti: The Ultimate Hiring Playbook: Five Questions to Ask Every New Hire | E1084 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:42 Harry Stebbings It's not an Uber that you get three times a week or whatever.
David Meyer: Why You Should Hire People Who Aren’t In Product Already | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:32 David Meyer The first time you called an Uber, it was like...
Ely Lerner: Should Startups Hire Advisors & How much should they be paid? | E1075 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:15 Ely Lerner You've got your Instacart, your Uber, your Lyft.
Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:31 Scott Farquhar And yes, you could wait, I guess, till that paradigm has been, you know, sorted out that, uh, you know, I think by the time like Uber worked out the exact way to order a car and that it was cars and not limos and stuff like that.
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:41 Guillermo Rauch You have the Ubers, you have the Airbnbs, you have the Facebooks.
Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:25 Phin Barnes Go find the next Uber.
- ▶ 12:03 Harry Stebbings Listen, I have to ask, you mentioned that, you know, about the ceiling that one hits, and you said, you know, invest in the next Uber.
- ▶ 44:05 Phin Barnes When I think of market, I think is, is Uber about owning the black car market, the taxicab market, or the auto market? 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?
- ▶ 52:57 Phin Barnes You know, God knows we heard so many pitches that were the Uber of X, right?
Is the VC Model Broken? Jason Lemkin, Mike Maples, Eric Paley & Harry Stebbings Debate | E1062 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:43 Mike Maples Dropbox, uh, Uber, Lyft, you know, and, and invested 750,000 dollars at 5.5 post in Lyft.
- ▶ 27:26 Eric Paley I do believe Uber had that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:30 Harry Stebbings Respectfully, Uber and Lyft are very differently priced today. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:25 Mike Maples It's not because Eric negotiated well with Uber.
- ▶ 1:19:40 Eric Paley and I both were lucky to have a relationship with WeatherGage, and Timbali Entis once said to me about actually uber secondary.
Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:05 Harry Stebbings Uber, Lyft, you know, Etsy's an incredible company at nine billion, but Shopify's at 85.
- ▶ 1:03:50 Miles Grimshaw And so you get Uber, sorry, you get Snapchat and Instagram on the, 2 times in the scene
Mudassir Sheikha: The Meeting that Led to $3.1BN Buyout: The Battle Between Uber and Careem | E1056 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:39 Mudassir Sheikha So this was something that we spotted very early on, and we said, let's, uh, enable cash payments, and while Uber was spending a lot of money in that market, but we were not able to use the service because just they didn't have the cards…
- ▶ 31:06 Mudassir Sheikha Was heading a company whose name was a four letter word at Karim. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:03 Mudassir Sheikha Uber and Dara have been, have been incredible. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:07 Harry Stebbings What did your wife say when the Uber acquisition deal came through?
Brian Balfour: Startup Growth Secrets from HubSpot; Distribution Stratagies; Impact of AI | E1049 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:15 Brian Balfour I think DoorDash is probably another one where they had to frickin' work for it, uh, and they took on some people who had advantages that they did not have, like Uber Eats and, and other ones.
DEBATE: State of Seed Investing w/ Jason Lemkin, Sam Lessin, Frank Rotman & Harry Stebbings | E1047 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:32 Sam Lessin I think people got into this mentality and it was partially because money was free and partially because of like Uber and Lyft and everything's in Airbnb and blah, blah, blah, right?
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:12 Jason Lemkin You know, we're all kind of remembering the days when everyone could invest at Uber at four million pre or whatever it was, or remembering even a more recent deal when like deals used to take a month to happen in the old days, and you…
Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:22 Vinod Khosla And I think gradually we will have go from Uber can't pick up and drop off on Market Street to cars can't drive on Market Street.
Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:24 Marcelo Claure You know, when we were investors in Uber, you know, we had to keep it a secret that after New York, three of the top five cities were Latin American cities.
- ▶ 35:29 Marcelo Claure This is why Uber exploded.
Lauryn Isford: Product Growth Secrets from Facebook, Airtable, BlueBottle, Dropbox & Notion | E1037 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:38 Harry Stebbings You know, with Uber or with any DoorDash, it's like clicking, it's like,
Noah Weiss: How to Master Product-Led Growth; Scaling PLG to Enterprise at Google & Slack | E1026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:30 Noah Weiss CIO at Uber.
20VC: What are the World's Tech Leaders Running From? Fear? Insecurity? Poverty? What Drives the Best with Orlando Bravo, Bill Ackman, Dara Khosrowshahi, Parker Conrad, Tobi Luttke, Brian Armstrong and more..
- ▶ 17:30 Harry Stebbings Now the final founder segment we're going to dive into is with Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO at Uber.
Adam Besnivick: How to Invest in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Companies; Looking Glass Capital | E1020 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:17 Adam Besvinick You were more comfortable seeing something amazing and passing on it and that becoming Uber or Instagram or any iconic company.
- ▶ 48:31 Harry Stebbings Well, if you've been at Uber or Square or Twitter or you name it for six years plus, they all just come out and raise five.
Chris Paik: How I Raised $400M; Substack's Broken Business Model; Music on TikTok vs IG | E1011 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:50 Chris Paik You remember, any time a company is successful, it spawns a countless number of X for Ys, where it's like, ok, Uber's really successful 2 times in the scene
Vince Hankes: Why We Put $300M into OpenAI; Sam Altman's Pitch; Lessons from Josh Kushner | E1009 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:22 Vince Hankes The answer was you put a computer in everyone's pocket and DoorDash and Uber came out of that because there's geolocation, the ability to have connectivity.
Mark Goldberger: The Ultimate Guide to Enterprise Sales | E1003 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:18 Harry Stebbings What I mean by that is, like, I've had, you know, sales leaders on the show say before, you know, the person that sold Twilio to Uber when they were a tiny startup is probably the best deal in enterprise history now, and it transformed,…
Scooter Braun on Being Enough, Insecurity, Wealth, Investing, Fame, Marriage and Much More | E1002 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:27 Scooter Braun I remember one of my first deals, everyone thought I was crazy on my, on my team, because I had a new business manager, I was starting to make some money, and, um, it was a company that was valued at four hundred million dollars in San… 3 times in the scene
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke: Remote Work vs In-Person; The Benefit of Setting Constraints | E997 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:37 Harry Stebbings It sounds like, for me, it's, um, Uber Luxus.
Jackie Reses: The Most Powerful Woman in Finance; Making $50BN for Yahoo on Alibaba | E996 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:14 Jackie Reses You could take Uber and say they took away the transportation market for horizontal point of sale providers, right?
Dara Khosrowshahi: How I Became CEO of Uber; Uber Eats vs DoorDash; The Postmates Acquisition | E994 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:37 Harry Stebbings And he said, you know, Dara had this incredible run on Expedia, and then the Uber opportunity came up, and so I, I was wondering, can you take me to that decision? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:10 Dara Khosrowshahi Uh, and then Uber definitely has, has been wartime. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:25 Dara Khosrowshahi So the natural constraint, we talk, for example, at Uber about being customer-obsessed. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:07 Dara Khosrowshahi We built our Uber Eats business essentially organically from a rides business. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:19 Dara Khosrowshahi And then the Uber Freight business as well, uh, the vast majority growth there has been organic and it's because it went to the core of 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:38 Dara Khosrowshahi Uber Eats is actually as big as DoorDash on a global basis, and so when we think about Uber, we think globally, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:56 Dara Khosrowshahi We've introduced a membership program, Uber one, where you can get a discount on both.
- ▶ 23:28 Dara Khosrowshahi I would say probably Kareem or there's a, we're pretty early on in terms of development, but a, an acquisition that we made in with Uber Freight Transplace, which really runs the logistics outsource logistics function of, of a lot of…
- ▶ 25:19 Harry Stebbings Well, that might be wrong, and it might be a good thing for Uber to do something in five years, 10 years, who knows?
- ▶ 37:05 Harry Stebbings Your parents didn't have Uber Eats delivered to their door every night?
- ▶ 37:58 Dara Khosrowshahi Um, you know, I think it's easy to generalize in terms of how we become too soft, but I like the people that we see at Uber and, um, I think they're capable, they work hard.
- ▶ 39:10 Dara Khosrowshahi One of the first things that I told the board when, when I became CEO is that I need the board to be about the success of Uber versus control of Uber. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:46 Dara Khosrowshahi It allowed us to come out lean and mean and focused, uh, allowed the Uber Eats business to really expand in extraordinary way.
- ▶ 45:20 Harry Stebbings You can call Dara the night before your first day as CEO of Uber and give him some advice. 2 times in the scene
Frank Fillmann: How I Boosted Revenue by $500M at Salesforce; Tips for Hiring Salespeople | E992 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:03 Frank Fillmann But in the enterprise space, I think like one thing that we would do is we build like a big executive briefing and we would send Uber Eats gift cards to everyone who would be a part of that briefing.
Bill Ackman: SVB Collapse; Biden vs Trump; How I Lost $400M on Netflix; Bill's 10-Year Long | E991 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:29 Harry Stebbings I had Dara from Uber on the show the other day, and he said his biggest concern is that actually the realization that Trump might actually get back into power, speaking of immigration.
Adam Grenier: The Inside Story to Uber’s Hypergrowth; How We Spent $1B/mo in China | E989 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:03 Adam Grenier Didi knew everything we were doing, uh, whereas, like, Lyft and Uber always knew what each other were doing, because we were watching each other, we're friends, things like that, but, like, we never had each other's data.
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings We have Uber, Hotel Tonight, Masterclass. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:21 Harry Stebbings Next we have Uber and I am being clinical on this. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:26 Adam Grenier So quick story in terms of Uber, right? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:46 Adam Grenier And like, as I mentioned, like when we built growth at Uber, like we infused an entire team 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:03 Harry Stebbings We mentioned the question around kind of Uber there and, you know, how do you price 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:22 Harry Stebbings And so my question to you is, I guess you've seen both with Uber and Masterclass, where I guess supply is more concentrated than say an Uber. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:34 Adam Grenier So at Uber, we can learn pretty quickly. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:41 Adam Grenier I, you know, autonomy and go fight to win was very much part of our culture at Uber. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:35 Adam Grenier Uh, like we started to there, uh, like my fourth year at Uber, we started pulling back quite a bit. 4 times in the scene
Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:30 Mike Duboe So Grubhub, Uber, Postmates, et cetera.
Tom Loverro: The Ultimate Startup Survival Guide for 2023 | 20VC #977 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:14 Tom Loverro Um, you know, Uber did this well, for instance, by showing, you know, yeah, hey, we're bleeding money left and right.
The Ultimate Guide for Building a Two-Sided Marketplace | a16z's Jeff Jordan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:42 Jeff Jordan So, you know, you get the Uber, Lyft, uh, situation where, you know, billions of dollars went into the building of those two businesses, and they're in the United States, they compete with each other.
- ▶ 12:00 Harry Stebbings Point being though, Jeff, like, if we're just being blunt, I think I sort of stand like seven, 97% of the money that's gone into Uber will not return one X, just given the quantum of money. 2 times in the scene
Hila Qu: The Ultimate Guide to Product Growth at Your Startup | 20VC #967 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
a16z GP Jeff Jordan: The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces | 20VC #966 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:40 Jeff Jordan So, you know, you get the Uber Lyft, uh, situation where, you know, billions of dollars went into the building of those two businesses and they're in the United States, they compete with each other. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:50 Jeff Jordan I did not anticipate, uh, uh, Travis getting capped at Uber Eats. 2 times in the scene