UberX
5 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Oct 2, 2023 by Phin Barnes · said 39 times in 12 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Scott Gorlick (19), Brian Tolkin (5), Andrew Macdonald (Mac) (3), Shervin Pishevar (2), Phin Barnes (2), Aaron Hirschhorn (2), Ooshma Garg (1), Martin Escobari (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- Brian Tolkin, Head of Product @Opendoor: How to Hire the Best Product Teams | E1257 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 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
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 19 mentions in 1 episode
2023 2 mentions in 1 episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2016 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Creating A Competitive Process Between VCs & Having Bill Gurley As A Board Member with Aaron Hirschhorn, Founder & CEO @ DogVacay
- 20VC: Binary's Justin Caldbeck on Specialisation Being Key To Success In VC, The Biggest Problem In VC Today and Why The Future Is A Moneyless Barter Economy
- 20VC: When To Transition From Growth to Profitability & The KPI's of The On Demand Economy with Frank Mycroft @ Booster Fuels
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about UberX, oldest first
Oct 2, 2023 bullish
Aug 30, 2024
Uber initially let Lyft launch first to absorb local regulatory risk
“And what a lot of people don't know about Lyft is when we started launching UberX, we let Lyft go first, and we had a policy that said, hey, if Lyft launches in a city, we are going to wait 30 days to see if the law enforcement comes after them, and then we're…”
Aug 30, 2024 negative
Uber's unit economics worsened in 2014 due to intense market competition
“Even though we were in 2014 and the business was five years along, like, the unit economics as we launched Hooper X and had more competitors actually got worse over time because you started spending so much money to acquire drivers, to acquire riders”
Aug 30, 2024 positive
Jan 13, 2025 negative
Pishevar: Kalanick's six-month regulatory delay cost Uber 30% market share to Lyft
“Travis Basically for six months was like, you know, telling the taxi commission, the city, government, like, you know, hey, these guys are illegal, like, well, you know, why are you allowing it, et cetera, instead of launching it, you know, as well which was l…”