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Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta's Jason Gardner
- ▶ 26:54 Jason Gardner Like we saw, you know, Instacart and Uber Eats and Postmates and, uh, DoorDash, you know, just their businesses were scaling so fast.
AI Food Fights in the Enterprise with Databricks' Ali Ghodsi
- ▶ 12:50 Ali Ghodsi But just like the internet, someone will show up later and think about Uber rides and cab driving and someone else showed up and thought about, Hey, I want to check out my friends on, you know, on the Facebook and so on.
The Economic Case for Generative AI with a16z's Martin Casado
- ▶ 5:07 Martin Casado We've invested seventy-five billion dollars, and the unit economics are still not on par with, like, a human Uber driver, right?
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 Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 3:51 Peter Diamandis Both of us were involved in the starting of Singularity University and started studying all of these companies and why was Uber, Airbnb, different elements of, of, of Google and Tesla.
- ▶ 7:05 Steph Smith Um, but I guess the Uber example is also interesting because it maybe is obvious. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:29 Salim Ismail Same with Uber and same with taxis, right?
- ▶ 16:17 Salim Ismail How's Uber scaling so fast or Airbnb or Ted or others? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:56 Salim Ismail And the first one is staff on demand, like Uber, as much as possible, have a workforce that's external so that you have high flexibility because that's a very important heuristic.
- ▶ 26:17 Salim Ismail Apple's interface to its app store developers or Uber to its drivers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:04 Peter Diamandis He was the chief product officer at Uber and at Amazon and talked about this experimentation engine that they built called Morpheus back then and teaching your team how to run experiments.
- ▶ 54:58 Salim Ismail And I think what's really powerful about today is when we were having this conversation, when we first put this model, Tesla was nowhere, uh, Uber and Airbnb were just kind of getting started, et cetera, et cetera.
Global Investing in Tech: Pattern Recognition, Founder Traits, Momentum | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 4:14 Chris Schroeder Look, in a way this goes back to the conversation about the American playbook, because in many respects, Uber should have been the ultimate case study of American playbook. 5 times in the scene
Marketplace Breakout Strategies: Take Rates, Defensibility, Payments | Field Notes by Connie Chan
Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants with Carl Pei
The Marketplace 100: A Glimpse Into the Future of Commerce
- ▶ 0:00 Steph Smith If you pick up your phone, I guarantee you'll see a bunch of marketplace companies, whether it be Airbnb, Uber, DoorDash, or Amazon.
- ▶ 4:21 Steph Smith I mean, I love that you brought up Airbnb because I don't know if I'm the only one who needed a reminder that Airbnb, Uber, a lot of these super familiar companies are marketplaces and also huge companies.
- ▶ 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?
- ▶ 13:33 Zach Cohen Uh, we saw with Uber, Black, and Airbnb plus, which they're still an open-ended marketplace.
The 1000x Developer with Amjad Masad
- ▶ 47:42 Amjad Masad Uber is an example of something bringing the transaction costs almost down to zero. 2 times in the scene
Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
- ▶ 50:18 Adam Neumann And so when Uber was getting bigger and bigger, how the yellow taxes started disappearing was an unbelievable experience.
Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
- ▶ 13:04 Palmer Luckey Uh, and this was also a year in which Uber was in the middle of a federal investigation for a lot of their workplace, place practices.
Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower
- ▶ 49:07 Marc Andreessen Um, and so, um, there, there was this famous Uber, Uber fought all these regulatory wars in all the cities that they were in. 4 times in the scene
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 1:29:51 Balaji Srinivasan Uber and Airbnb are also regulators. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:06:56 Balaji Srinivasan Uber eats is like gluttony, right?
AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng
- ▶ 33:25 Steph Smith Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's, it's almost just reshaping the, like, skill ecosystem, and, like, some people who have invested in skills for many decades, like, if they, if they were just, like, an A-plus oil painter, unfortunately for them,…
"Crypto Startup School" Documentary
- ▶ 10:36 Tope Alabi We have, like, one guy on the app, he's a, he's an Uber driver, and he has a wife in Nigeria whom he sends money to every week.
- ▶ 17:51 Tina Zhen So, uh, Jess Water and Uber Eats, and it is already dark, so I'm gonna try to find it.
Gamers are Entering a New Era of Monetization
- ▶ 12:46 Kevin Chou Probably a lot more than he would have made if he drove an Uber or participated in another part of the gig economy.
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.
- ▶ 9:02 Adena Hefets But this is the same problem that we're seeing for the Uber driver who has 10 99 income that we're also seeing for the, you know, physician who just graduated med school with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.
- ▶ 13:43 Adena Hefets I think it goes right back to what I had said earlier about Uber and Airbnb.
Four Trends in Consumer Tech
- ▶ 4:04 Connie Chan And in the US, we have Uber. 2 times in the scene
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.
Scaling Creativity with Marc Andreessen and Shonda Rimes
- ▶ 10:51 Shonda Rhimes We have a, we have a wonderful girl who works for us who, she doesn't have a car, and so she has to Uber everywhere she goes, which is, you know, in LA is like a nightmare.
Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future
- ▶ 23:59 Kevin Kelly There was a, after Airbnb and Uber, there was a stampede of 5 times in the scene
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?
- ▶ 2:51 Chris Dixon Another set of challenges I'll mention is, as you'll see from these headlines, the, you know, the model for these, these business models for these companies is essentially baked around, you know, advertising and transaction fees, and…
- ▶ 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. 2 times in the scene
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.
- ▶ 42:48 Sanket Pathak Um, Lyft, Uber, they're doing it.
Founding Stories: Anchorage
- ▶ 28:32 Chris Dixon NGOs, you know, consumer internet companies like Uber and Lyft.
How to Raise Money from a Venture Investor
- ▶ 3:22 Scott Cooper You may remember this whole case that happened with Uber and the company called Waymo, right, where, you know, kind of Waymo was part of Google, and then, you know, a number of people left. 3 times in the scene
Everyone is an Analyst: Opportunities in Operational Analytics
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 39:42 Olaf Carlson-Wee It's kind of this basic building block, but I can't build Twitter the protocol or Uber the protocol to compete with the centralized web platform unless I have a decentralized file architecture underneath it, which today is not really…
Founding Stories: Sandbox VR
- ▶ 20:18 Andrew Chen We were at Uber at the time.
Five Open Problems for the Blockchain Computer
- ▶ 2:17 Ali Yahya And so with, I mean, I think one of the clearest examples is just the example of mobile phones enabling applications like Uber or applications like Instagram
- ▶ 30:08 Ali Yahya You, you'll tap into all of this, ah, unused storage space, ah, that previously, that previously wasn't accessible, and that you'll offer that at a cheaper rate.
- ▶ 43:13 Ali Yahya So things like reviews on Yelp, or things like, like reviews on, or stars on Uber, or number of likes on Twitter, and number of followers
The Future of Decision-Making: 3 Startup Opportunities
Network Effects: Categories & Debates (2 of 3)
- ▶ 1:19 unnamed speaker And so you're incentivized to not just use Grubhub, you're also incentivized to use DoorDash, Uber Eats, E-twenty-four, et cetera, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:25 unnamed speaker And I think that delivery person, there is stronger network effects around that three-sided marketplace because that delivery person, it's, you know, if they can drive for Uber and deliver for Uber Eats, it's much easier to prevent that…
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 2:10 Sonal Chokshi I mean, didn't like Uber like suck or Waymo suck up the entire CMU robotics department at one point?
- ▶ 6:35 Qasar Younis The iPhone moment in my mind is when you have, um, you know, frankly, the 12 or 24 month period where Instagram, Snapchat, Uber, and WhatsApp are all some,
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… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 11:44 Brian McCullough How would Uber, Airbnb, go down the list? 2 times in the scene
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 | When Organic Growth Goes Enterprise
- ▶ 27:54 Andrew Chen One of the funny anecdotes at Uber was that for a long time we were officially on HipChat, but there were so many teams across the company that would have their little secret Slack, you know, team chat going because they just didn't want…
a16z Podcast | The Basics of Growth 1 -- User Acquisition
- ▶ 12:31 Andrew Chen And so, you know, in the case of, you know, Uber, where I was recently, 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 | When Journalism Goes Global
- ▶ 10:04 Jared Ryle And their clients were like Nike and Uber, and as it turned out, The Queen and Bono and all those people were also clients.
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 | Trends in Cryptocurrencies
- ▶ 5:46 Olaf Carlson-Wee Many of the major Web two point O companies that have seen a substantial growth in the last 15 years, this is Twitter, Tumblr, Etsy, eBay, Uber, every single one of these companies could someday see competition from a peer peer-to-peer…
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 | 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. 2 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 | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
- ▶ 27:50 Fred Ehrsam I think that the best example of this is thinking, okay, well, the value of PayPal is X, thus Bitcoin should at least be worth Y, or, you know, Uber is worth at least X, so a decentralized Uber token should at least be worth Y, or… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Lyft and Local Governments
- ▶ 17:34 Joe Okpaku Our competitor did not make that decision in the longterm. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Adjusting to Trade... and Innovation
- ▶ 14:43 Russ Roberts So if you think about a current cab ride, a current cab ride or Uber has a huge labor component, and it also has an insurance component, but the cost of getting from here to there is going to go down. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Blockchain, in Congress
- ▶ 6:07 Congressman David Schweikert The Uber driver, the peace worker who wants to put aside 25 cents every time they finished a drive or a project, could we dramatically lower the cost using a blockchain encrypted network?
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 | Crisis Communications
- ▶ 13:59 Kim Milosevich We all experienced sort of what's been going on with Uber recently.
a16z Podcast | Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols
- ▶ 8:34 Olaf Carlson-Wee You know, Twitter, Facebook, Uber, Etsy, eBay, whatever it might be. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:03 Olaf Carlson-Wee So we need to recreate all of those slices of that centralized web stack in order to build Twitter the protocol and Uber the protocol that can actually compete with these centralized companies.
a16z Podcast | Cars and Cities, the Autonomy Edition
- ▶ 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 | Welcome to the New Era of Commerce
- ▶ 25:03 James Beshara I had a friend that bought a Tesla, um, and, and put down that, that deposit in an Uber.
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 | Culture and/of Design
- ▶ 8:07 Connie Chan So for example, when Uber launched Uber Eats, it's a separate application. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:07 Connie Chan So for example, when Uber launched Uber Eats, it's a separate application. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Machine Intelligence, from University to Industry
- ▶ 8:05 Frank Chen So Uber shows up at Carnegie Mellon and he says, well, I'll take them all, right?
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.
- ▶ 30:52 Renato Valdez-Olmos People say we're the Uber for seniors or something, but those are, it's like extremely transactional, but we're connecting people to people directly.
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 | What's Next for Technology and National Security?
- ▶ 18:28 Marc Andreessen We'll grudgingly concede that PCs were probably good, but, you know, this whole Snapchat, Tesla, Uber, like, I don't know.
a16z Podcast | Sleep!
- ▶ 14:14 Natasha Tiku Ariana, um, I, you know, the last time we talked, you were not a board member with Uber, although you had partnered with Uber in a drowsy driving campaign. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:53 Natasha Tiku Well, I, I think, you know, you're right to say Uber is just a very small part of it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:10 Natasha Tiku How do you see your role as an Uber board member?
a16z Podcast | Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond
- ▶ 39:54 Vitalik Buterin But one of the examples that people quite often bring up is even looking at something like Uber, where, you know, if you look at it naively, you might think that there's only kind of two roles in it in the Uber ecosystem, which is that… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:51 Fred Ehrsam And I think the first thing we'll really start to see is this idea of like X without the X getting built in a, we've talked before about like Uber without the Uber.
a16z Podcast | We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go
- ▶ 10:53 Ryan Hoover Yeah, well, there's actually something also interesting going back to how awkward it is to see some people holding up their phone and talking, and I was actually in an Uber the other day and driving, going across the street, and this guy…
a16z Podcast | Getting Network Effects
- ▶ 27:20 Jeff Jordan I mean, Uber's early hack was they're going to subsidize enough cars to drive around a city to provide a minimum level of service that the consumer found attractive, and then as consumers find it attractive and start booking more sites,…
- ▶ 43:12 unnamed speaker Um, so, uh, Nike branded shoes or, um, an app from Uber, but when customers or users give back data or create something which then adds to the network that we benefit in a stronger and more, more coherent way when we have.
a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
- ▶ 22:24 Angela Strange Take Uber for instance, right?