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▶ 12:26 Andrew Macdonald (Mac) If you try to do it like as five percent of your job, like, you know, I run the marketplace for UberX in the US, but I'm also trying to incubate this other thing with two percent of my time.
▶ 15:29 Andrew Macdonald (Mac) Like taking an UberX to and from work every day in New York City for like, 35 bucks a direction, that's still a luxury product, right? 2 times in the scene

▶ 57:09 Jason Lemkin They added, they added Uber X now, now for five bucks, I can get to work and nothing changed.

▶ 51:57 unnamed speaker People were worried that when juxtaposed against the cheaper UberX or Uber pool prices, that would take a hit.

▶ 4:24 Brian Tolkin Uh, back in the early days of UberPool, um, uh, the way you accessed the product was a sort of this, um, subset of UberX. 4 times in the scene
▶ 16:09 Brian Tolkin I think the biggest challenge with going from, from single product to multi product, I mean, I, I actually described probably the biggest fuck up was, was probably the one that I described, uh, previously was like, that was Uber going from…

▶ 19:40 Shervin Pishevar They saw Uber launch with black cars, and so they launched effectively what became UberX later. 2 times in the scene

▶ 11:38 Scott Gorlick So 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…
▶ 15:20 Scott Gorlick And while you can create more and get more on board, you're never going to build like the massive TAM business unless you open it up for UberX. 10 times in the scene
▶ 17:20 Scott Gorlick Um, I think, like, we had strong product market fit, but I think, like, what was particularly interesting about Free UberX Week, looking back on it 10 years later, uh, in hindsight, was the competitive dynamics, right? 6 times in the scene
▶ 25:09 Scott Gorlick But what we did on UberX really inflamed them. 2 times in the scene

▶ 44:30 Phin Barnes That Travis would figure out UberX.
▶ 46:10 Phin Barnes Um, I think that in the first case, whether it's Travis needing to know that there's UberX or it's Ivan needing to know that there's going to be, you know,

▶ 12:05 Martin Escobari Launching UberX and UberEats and all the, all these, all the extensions that, that Uber did, and we missed it.

▶ 28:42 Ooshma Garg And a very interesting thing is that we're only serving 10 to 15% of the population by income, and I think there's a huge opportunity for the UberX of our industry to serve the mass market that actually needs this the most and help them…

▶ 21:45 Justin Caldbeck I mean, I met Ryan when the company was 10 people, and I just, I didn't get how people could afford to be paying 50 dollars for rides that were, you know, eight, 10 blocks, and at that point, there was no notion of UberX, period, right?

▶ 7:46 Frank Mycroft They had to get there and they had a very complicated path of the black cars and Uber X and markets that they pursued to eventually get there.

▶ 14:06 Aaron Hirschhorn And probably the best example of that is, is UberX. 2 times in the scene

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