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The Opportunity for Global Founders
- ▶ 35:40 Gabriel Vasquez So when they were, um, coming to Silicon Valley, we put them in touch with the top execs from DoorDash, the top execs from Lyft, the top execs from a bunch of our portfolio companies, and we kind of helped them ideate about
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World
- ▶ 18:52 Travis Kalanick Ok, so the Uber and Lyft drivers are now protesting at the Waymo office.
- ▶ 22:42 Ben Horowitz So Travis, why didn't you buy Lyft and do you regret it? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:58 Ben Horowitz Like, when we, I mean, I was on the board of Lyft, uh, and I was talking to him about Uber, and he would tell me, like, all the stuff that Chinese ride sharing companies were doing to him, breaking into his apps, giving shit away for free,…
Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- ▶ 9:43 Ben Horowitz And then, um, meanwhile, uh, Scott Weissen did a deal, uh, for the other company in the space, Lyft, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:18 Travis Kalanick Of course it didn't, because they were at Lyft.
- ▶ 19:21 Travis Kalanick We had, yeah, we had this thing where, um, we would, against Lyft, we would, uh, we would recruit the drivers on Lyft, um, to bring them over to Uber, so that, uh, it was hard for Lyft to build supply. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:26 Travis Kalanick That's why I didn't buy Lyft.
How to Reorg After AI Changes Everything | Block's Owen Jennings on the a16z Show
- ▶ 20:08 Owen Jennings For the past 10 or 15 years, everyone's used to a static UI, a rigid UI, you tap through the UI, everyone has the same, everyone's Uber or Lyft or Cash App or whatever looks the same.
Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
- ▶ 19:57 Marc Andreessen We just see more and more examples where the mistake that we or others make is, oh, this must be a, you know, the market for Uber and Lyft must be the market for taxi cabs, right?
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 29:27 Erik Torenberg And, and on, on mobiles, you know, some of the new use cases, you know, we're, you know, getting in strangers' cars, you know, we mentioned Lyft and Uber or,
The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- ▶ 51:07 Jonathan Swanson Um, you know, I've, back in the Uber versus Lyft, uh, really scaling war days, I remember emailing Logan a question, um, probably to come to one of our dinners, and he just responded war mode.
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 15:09 Balaji Srinivasan The actual regulator of taxis is Uber or Lyft because they have real-time tracking.
The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants
- ▶ 16:15 Martin Casado And then, um, you know, and it, by the way, meanwhile, of course, we saw consumer being disrupted by mobile, right, with the rise of, like, the Ubers and the Lyfts, you know, the Airbnbs.
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 10:04 unnamed speaker Uber and Lyft almost merged at one point.
- ▶ 15:13 Marc Andreessen You know, 2010, 22,009, 20 10 was kind of the pivot we now know, which was, you know, the rise of Uber and Lyft, the rise of Airbnb, the rise of Tesla, the rise of SpaceX.
Where Crypto Meets AI with Chris Dixon & David George
- ▶ 34:20 Chris Dixon It just, and whether it's network effects, brand, I mean, you know, we see it play out over and over with these, uh, you know, like Uber and Lyft, people had all these debates, I remember all these debates, like there aren't really network…
Hey Tech, Come to Healthcare
- ▶ 2:55 Daisy Wolf Um, you know, if you look at Airbnb or Lyft or even companies that have been built in unregulated markets like Google and Facebook eventually become regulated.
How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next
- ▶ 58:27 Marc Andreessen How about we do all the customer, you know, all the customer service, like the entire end to end experience, uh, or the same thing for, uh, you know, Uber or Uber and Lyft, which is, you know, you could, you could have a small boutique… 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 30:49 Marc Andreessen And by the way, even mobile, like there were some new mobile companies like Uber and Lyft and Airbnb.
The Future of AI Is Amazing
- ▶ 2:56 Martin Casado Now, if we go 20 years later, we've invested seventy five billion dollars as an industry, and while we do have autonomous vehicles on the road, and they're great, and they're solving real problems, the unit economics are still worse than,…
Collaborative Disruption at DoD
- ▶ 12:40 Kathleen Hicks We integrated disparate digital AI and data analytics teams under an empowered chief digital and artificial intelligence officer who previously ran machine learning at Lyft.
Big Ideas 2024: The Rise of the Developer as a Buyer in Financial Services with Angela Strange
- ▶ 4:50 Angela Strange Examples, Lyft can add bank accounts for its drivers, or Procore can add, you know, payments and bank accounts for their plumbers.
Why 50% of Every Dollar Billed Is Lost In Healthcare
- ▶ 7:11 Florian Otto Using modern technology, um, uh, to personalize the billing experience and give patients the same experience that they're expecting from, yeah, from the healthcare system that they're experiencing at, uh, any other consumer facing…
Are Autonomous Vehicles Finally Here? Buckle up!
- ▶ 33:42 unnamed speaker So, you know, it's just, you get a sense of the user that wants to be in a car like this, and they were like, they called it basically Uber and Lyft for introverts, and, you know, there's just these little things that you don't think about…
The Marketplace 100: A Glimpse Into the Future of Commerce
- ▶ 7:41 Olivia Moore Cause you might think like, oh, Uber is already public, Airbnb is public, Lyft's public, like how much more is there to build in marketplaces?
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 1:31:28 Balaji Srinivasan So Uber and Lyft actually changed this, Airbnb changed this, because now you have a regulator, customer, provider complex. 3 times in the scene
The Open Source Movement in Fintech
- ▶ 3:10 Angela Strange Lyft can add bank accounts for its drivers.
A Novel Path to Homeownership
- ▶ 1:47 Adena Hefets We first saw this with Uber and Lyft, who redefined what it meant to own a car or how we interact with a car.
- ▶ 2:50 Adena Hefets The nuance here is that they're going from just being able to provide what Uber and Lyft did, which was use, experience, and access, and they're adding on a fourth dimension.
Four Trends in Consumer Tech
- ▶ 12:07 Connie Chan We started leveraging the camera, we started leveraging the GPS, and that brought us great companies like Instagram or Lyft.
Any Company Can Offer Financial Services
- ▶ 0:01 Angela Strange Every company now, as we saw with Uber and Lyft and Shopify and MindBody should be thinking about how to leverage financial services to better serve their customers, better retain their customers, and drive more margin.
- ▶ 6:15 Angela Strange Take Uber and Lyft. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:36 Angela Strange Every company now, as we saw with Uber and Lyft and Shopify and MindBody, should be thinking about how to leverage financial services to better serve their customers, better retain their customers, and drive more margin.
Imagining Our Future Through Tech
- ▶ 13:35 Frank Chen So you can summon a ride just like on a lift.
- ▶ 32:15 Frank Chen Compare that to pushing a button, and like Lyft, you have a one- or two-person pod waiting for you at the station.
Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future
- ▶ 26:40 Marc Andreessen Which of course is very different than the Uber and Lyft model.
Decentralized Applications: What's Now, What's Next
- ▶ 12:18 Arianna Simpson So in the same way that Airbnb allowed you to share your physical space, Uber and Lyft, ah, have allowed, you know, a network of, of riders and drivers to communicate and, and collaborate with one another.
Social Networking in 2030: How Could Crypto Change Things?
- ▶ 8:21 Chris Dixon Uh, the heart, one of the hardest things to do when you're starting a network businesses, which are, you know, businesses like Uber and Lyft and Airbnb, dating sites like Tinder, social networks, chat apps.
- ▶ 12:36 Chris Dixon So finally, you know, this is not just social networking, so all of the things I've said here today, I use social networking as an example because it's, you know, the most prominent, but, you know, hospitality, services like Airbnb,…
Founding Stories: Synapse
- ▶ 1:48 Sanket Pathak And I walked to the bank branch, um, because back then I think Uber and Lyft didn't exist, and Memphis didn't have good public transit, and I was too shy to ask, like, my new friends to give me a ride.
- ▶ 41:24 Angela Strange Take, for example, Lyft, which launched a bunch of financial products for its drivers, and that makes a lot of sense because it's higher margin for Lyft and also provides, um, good benefit to its users. 3 times in the scene
Founding Stories: Anchorage
- ▶ 13:22 Chris Dixon One of the interesting things is, is in traditional venture capital, institutions like us, like Andreessen Horowitz, would invest in startups like Lyft or something, and then, you know, other institutions invest, and then seven years…
- ▶ 28:32 Chris Dixon NGOs, you know, consumer internet companies like Uber and Lyft.
Everyone is an Analyst: Opportunities in Operational Analytics
Five Open Problems for the Blockchain Computer
- ▶ 2:36 unnamed speaker Your PC didn't know where you were necessarily, so it couldn't enable Lyft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:00 unnamed speaker It's not like instantly the replacement for Airbnb or Google Photos or Lyft, right?
- ▶ 42:46 unnamed speaker Uh, there's, uh, Airbnb and Lyft, and so, like, trust seems like a super powerful primitive, uh, for, for creating killer apps.
The Future of Decision-Making: 3 Startup Opportunities
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks as Emerging Economies (Done Right?)
- ▶ 10:01 Jesse Walden So, you know, when I get into a taxi cab, I don't have to think about whether Uber or Lyft are going to have a real big impact on the value of my medallion and, you know, the future utility I'll get out of it.
a16z Podcast | The Business of Cybercrime
- ▶ 21:42 Joel de la Garza Like you see several gangs in the United States that are doing similar schemes where they take stolen credit cards and then sign up as Uber drivers and run credit cards through Uber or through Lyft or through various other sort of sharing…
What's Next for Education Startups
- ▶ 21:00 unnamed speaker Lyft and Airbnb are, are classic examples of that, but Wonder School also, right?
a16z Podcast | Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 8:49 Ben Horowitz And so you can now build things like Lyft.
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 10:26 Fred Wilson Right, like Uber and Lyft and a bunch of other companies, a bunch of companies in Asia dominate that business.
a16z Podcast | The Basics of Growth 1 -- User Acquisition
- ▶ 12:50 Jeff Jordan I bring two examples up the pink lift mustache. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- ▶ 3:26 Chris Dixon Take advantage of the fact that you have the phone with you all the time, and you have GPS, and the driver has GPS, or, you know, Snapchat and Instagram, take advantage of the camera that you always have with you, and you can do…
a16z Podcast | The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How
- ▶ 5:39 Christina Cordova If we take it to like a larger, like a more modern example, so we're moving from, let's say, physical, building a physical car, right, all the way to, like, let's say a business like Lyft, which is ride sharing service. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Self-Flying Camera
- ▶ 3:03 Chris Dixon It allowed, for example, you know, Uber and Lyft and Instagram and all sorts of things to focus just on the kind of application development side of things, so it allowed app developers to be app developers, and provided the phone operating…
a16z Podcast | The Evolution of Payments
- ▶ 0:53 Alex Rampell Like, that was the answer, and it was remarkably prescient, because if you think about how Stripe has succeeded into this new generation of companies, like Lyft, like Instacart, pretty much any company that's starting today is almost de…
a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?
- ▶ 0:28 Sonal Chokshi James Wu, CEO of DeepMap, and Taggart Matheson, Director of Product at Lyft.
a16z Podcast | Of Governors and Mayors, and Tech Policy
- ▶ 1:50 Doug Ducey We also had to assemble an entire government, you know, 35,000 employees, 43 agency heads, 220 boards and commissions, so our agency head at the Department of Weights and Measures told us that his plan during the Super Bowl was to shut…
- ▶ 7:18 Ted Ullyot You mentioned the regulator who immediately didn't get the message about what you had run on and adopted the opposite approach with Uber and Lyft around the Super Bowl.
a16z Podcast | Revenge of the Algorithms (Over Data)... Go! No?
- ▶ 21:22 Steven Sinofsky So if there's this opportunity, like, you know, I look at like a great example is like how many of your Lyft drivers also have, have Waze turned on just because they know the maps are entirely accurate, but they don't know about accidents…
a16z Podcast | Platforming the Future
- ▶ 0:50 Tim O'Reilly I spend a lot of time on Uber and Lyft and on Airbnb, kind of talking about how they have to make both parts of the market come together. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:40 Tim O'Reilly You know, you know, when you think about Uber and Lyft, they were a realization of capabilities that were there in the smartphone.
a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Lyft and Local Governments
- ▶ 0:06 Matthew Colford Today, as part of our ongoing series about how startups are engaging with policymakers and regulators, my colleague Matt Spence from the policy team dives into a case study with Joe Paku, VP of government relations at Lyft, and David Mack,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:45 Joe Okpaku If there's ignorance or lack of understanding, we are willing to spend the time and the energy and the effort to try to change your mind because we believe so strongly in what we're trying to do that we can change your mind if you are… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:51 Joe Okpaku That's a great question because, you know, the reality is, is that even though we 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Companies, Networks, Crowds
- ▶ 10:18 Frank Chen In other words, we're in Lyft and Airbnb precisely because once you have all the hosts, you're going to get all of the renters, right?
a16z Podcast | From Jobs to Flying Cars
- ▶ 32:36 Marc Andreessen If the economics work, an Uber or Lyft account, right, is probably the best way to go, because you, you eliminate a huge amount of risk, right, from teenage drivers.
a16z Podcast | Cars and Cities, the Autonomy Edition
- ▶ 0:45 Sonal Chokshi We have Taggart Matiasen, director of product at Lyft, who covers a core platform, passenger experience, and product development strategy for autonomous vehicles.
- ▶ 13:10 Frank Chen Basically, they need to win Lyft and Uber.
- ▶ 16:15 Carl Pope And the fleet owners will actually start marketing the fact that when you call them up, you won't just say to Lyft or Uber, give me a black car or something simple.
a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
- ▶ 8:47 Ted Ullyot And if you think you got ripped off on the way from LaGuardia into the city, then you can, instead of trying to remember, if you don't know the area, instead of trying to remember what route you took, Lyft and Uber have it on the app and…
a16z Podcast | The Movement of Money
- ▶ 3:09 Patrick Collison We worked with Lyft back a couple months ago to roll at Express Pay, where rather than just kind of sending money to their drivers via bank transfer, they can send it instantaneously to their drivers kind of directly over debit card rails,…
a16z Podcast | The Realities of Aging / When Healthcare Is Local
- ▶ 23:32 Sonal Chokshi And so instead, like apps like Uber and Lyft would simply just bypass that by building their own software and kind of going full stack so they control the user and customer experience end to end.
a16z Podcast | Produce or Perish! (What We Eat)
- ▶ 13:46 Sonal Chokshi And when you think of like the full stack startup, I mean, not to get all crazy riffy, the thing that's really interesting that makes companies like Lyft and Uber work versus the traditional taxi services companies
a16z Podcast | Getting Network Effects
- ▶ 26:52 Anu Hariharan However, if you look at lift line and Uber pool, I think those could have network effects because think of this, you're a rider, you want more riders using those because then you can share a ride to San Francisco from Palo Alto and… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | An Economics Take on the Sharing Economy
- ▶ 11:05 Sonal Chokshi Okay, so I do want to go back to the point you mentioned about the democratization of opportunity, and the reality is that I have not yet to be in a Lyft or an Uber where someone is actually taking their Tesla out on the road, and so I…
- ▶ 23:45 Arun Sundararajan Now, with Lyft and Uber, you've actually got a greater amount of regulation because there are so many more drivers. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Move Fast But Don't Break Things (When It Comes to Computational Biology)
- ▶ 13:22 Vijay Pande If you think about companies like Lyft or Uber, what makes those interesting is not just that it's cheaper and not that it's easier, but that combination of that, you just have this cell phone network there and you can call a car and it…
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 36:50 Marc Andreessen And so Uber and Lyft just come in and basically say, let's just do it.
a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
- ▶ 29:26 Penny Pritzker He's now at Lyft, uh, called Startup Global.
a16z Podcast | The Art of the Regulatory Hack
- ▶ 6:15 Evan Burfield You know, you look at Lyft,
- ▶ 18:46 Evan Burfield And, um, and so, and by the way, like, by Uber and Lyft's own terms of services, right, you can't have kids under 18 driving these cars.
- ▶ 23:11 Evan Burfield And so, Lyft and Uber famously deployed a grassroots strategy, which is they go into a city,
a16z Podcast | On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media
- ▶ 18:42 unnamed speaker But you also see the pressure that when, whatever the vertical is, whether it's transportation like Uber and Lyft, or if it's retail or something, when those full stack, you know, instantiations come out and are super successful, the…
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 4:34 Steven Sinofsky What I did is I picked the apps that are focused on, on productivity, and I left all of the, the apps, like, for, for doing Open Table, and getting a lift, and all of those things are still only on my phone.
a16z Podcast | Investing in (Business and Career) Change
- ▶ 23:28 Marc Andreessen Another example, you know, taxis, transportation, another example, taxis, like the taxi, you know, in Paris, the taxi cab rider, you know, taxi cab drivers are rioting, and, and the claim is that Uber and Lyft are doing all these immoral… 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Future of Money and Monetization
- ▶ 1:09 Alex Rampell Because one thing that I find very interesting is that, how did Airbnb and Uber and Lyft get started?
a16z Podcast | Reinventing Insurance
- ▶ 5:59 Frank Chen At the point where you get into a taxi cab, or you start your Lyft driving experience, or you get on a plane, all of those could be insurable events.
- ▶ 6:28 Mike Paulus Um, so Uber and Lyft and, and the whole on-demand world have, have really transformed and, and, and blurred this line between the commercial and personal driving worlds.
- ▶ 14:22 Mike Paulus So really Google, uh, Volvo and Mercedes have all said that for, for their cars, while they're in assault driving mode, they have the liability and then services like Lyft and Uber, uh, which will likely be the first delivery mechanism on…
a16z Podcast | Nobody Discusses Work Software Outside of Work -- and Then There’s Slack
- ▶ 24:04 Stuart Butterfield It's things like someone followed you on Twitter, or this expense report requires your approval, or here's the receipt for your Lyft ride, or whatever it is.
a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development
- ▶ 28:53 Bill Macaitis And Lyft was a cool one. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Tiger and the Dragon -- On Tech and Startups in India and China
- ▶ 24:48 Connie Chan And that, and the DD lived an example of, um, a company in Silicon Valley who really figured out how to work very well, very, very well with a Chinese company.
a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
- ▶ 31:59 Shaq (Shakil Khan) How do you get, how do you remove the friction which you manage to do in your flights and your hotels and your Lyft or your Uber or Halos, but then having to stand 16 minutes in the rain waiting to be told that you're at the wrong counter…
a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
- ▶ 33:14 Sonal Chokshi I actually personally believe, I mean, I'm not an expert in this space by any means, but I actually personally believe that all the sort of stealth players that have these sort of shadow payment systems where you're giving them your credit…
- ▶ 38:50 Sonal Chokshi Like, to me, it's exactly like the way I use Lyft and Uber.
a16z Podcast | A Whirlwind Tour of Policy Issues in Tech
- ▶ 9:14 Julie Samuels Um, but when you see also Uber and Lyft and Airbnb and, and these stories are in the news, you're also reminding people how regulation, how government plays, right?
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