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a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
- ▶ 24:24 Angela Strange We were talking a lot about Apple, Google, Facebook, Uber, who's going to win a mobile payments. 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. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Widgetification of Everything
- ▶ 2:22 Benedict Evans Um, Uber can integrate directly into maps, um, and start making suggestions or providing services kind of embedded within those.
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 | Not If, But How -- When Technology is Inevitable (with Kevin Kelly)
- ▶ 2:29 Kevin Kelly It's a sharing aspect, Uber, Airbnb. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 36:24 Marc Andreessen And so as an example, the predecessor company to Uber was not, you know, a ride-sharing service that failed. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Airspace as the Next Internet-Like Platform
- ▶ 13:16 Eli Dorado Hollywood was like the Uber of drones and sort of like the, the,
a16z Podcast | The Art of the Regulatory Hack
- ▶ 6:16 Evan Burfield Uh, you look at Uber, and, and those are just sort of the, the tip of the iceberg around how we have to really transform the way cities operate.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 17:55 Ezra Klein And so the rise of some of these full stack startups like Uber is interesting to me because it speaks to one mechanism by which deployment will happen. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Banking on the Blockchain
- ▶ 25:45 William Mougayar And when you connect your Uber app and you get out, automatically they do a pull request and it's taken out of your bank account.
a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond
- ▶ 0:28 Sonal Chokshi He's currently at Uber and developer relations.
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 | Building Affirm, and Why Max Levchin Has Watched Seven Samurai 100-Plus Times
- ▶ 13:53 Angela Strange If you wanted anything, you needed to think about it at least a week in advance, and now with your mobile phone, you want a taxi, you call Uber, you want food, you've got 200 different companies, you can deliver a meal in 15 minutes. 2 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? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:29 Kristo Käärmann Um, and I don't know the answer, but what I see from, say, Uber, you know, things seem to happen faster than we, than we think.
a16z Podcast | Reinventing Insurance
- ▶ 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 | When Banking Works Like My Smartphone
- ▶ 3:38 Tavit Henrikos So, you know, consumers have come to expect that, um, everything works the way Skype works the way Uber works.
a16z Podcast | Things Come Together -- Truths about Tech in Africa
- ▶ 33:34 Alan Knott Craig So if you see a crime in a, especially in a community like Mamalodi or one of the townships, the street names aren't very obvious.
a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development
- ▶ 14:21 Joel Spolsky And so the level of complexity that you're working at, you might summon an Uber vehicle with, with one API. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Mellody Hobson and Ben Horowitz Talk Investing, Career, and Star Wars!
- ▶ 30:28 Mellody Hobson Because I think that, um, I think it's interesting how Travis is talking about it at Uber, saying, you know, we're just starting to crawl and you want us to go to the prom.
a16z Podcast | The Tiger and the Dragon -- On Tech and Startups in India and China
- ▶ 1:42 Anu Hariharan Is this the Uber of India?
- ▶ 11:17 Sonal Chokshi Actually, didn't Ola in India, which is a competitor to Uber in India, or sorry, Uber actually in India, didn't one of them actually allow for the very first time in that market cash instead of other alternative payments? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:22 Anu Hariharan And the other interesting thing about Uber and Ola evolving in the Indian landscape, I would say, is, you know, Ola obviously partnered with all modes of transportation, right? 7 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
- ▶ 14:51 Michael Copeland If you're listening to this podcast, it's like Uber, but it's not Uber. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 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 | London Calling for Tech Done in a Different Way
- ▶ 16:35 Russell Davies But Uber aren't going there tomorrow, you know.
a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
- ▶ 7:05 Alex Rampell Yeah, especially for financial services because on, on a panel that we did yesterday, I was talking about if you want to launch Uber or Airbnb or do something of that sort in the sharing economy, um,
- ▶ 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 | Artificial Intelligence and the 'Space of Possible Minds'
- ▶ 33:38 Tom Standage We've just seen, for example, Uber has snaffled the entire robotics department for Carnegie Mellon.
a16z Podcast | A Whirlwind Tour of Policy Issues in Tech
- ▶ 7:04 Julie Samuels Um, we actually recently, I live in New York now, and recently there was a bill, uh, that the mayor, Mayor de Blasio was pushing that had to do with Uber and, um, other ride sharing companies. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Money, Risk, and Software
- ▶ 37:58 Alex Rampell So, uh, Uber and Lyft came about a little bit after I wrote that. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Connecting People with Digital Work, the Gig Economy, and More
- ▶ 7:44 Laila Janah We have tremendous opportunity to shift that, um, with policy change, and I think that part of the challenge that Silicon Valley has with government is that there's a perception that people just aren't very forward-thinking, so instead of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:53 Laila Janah If you can drive a car, you can make money through Uber, Lyft, or a number of different car sharing services.
a16z Podcast | When Software Eats Cars
- ▶ 0:58 Benedict Evans Well, what brought it to mind is that Apple and Google are getting into the car business, and Tesla is in the car business as a technology company, and Uber is in the car business as well, and obviously we have an investment in Lyft as…
- ▶ 8:39 Benedict Evans Um, but on the other hand, if you order like an Uber black car, you don't decide whether it's going to be a Mercury or a, uh, whether it's going to be a Lincoln or a Cadillac or a Mercedes.
- ▶ 15:09 Benedict Evans There's the hard, there is a hard part in the not hitting things, in actually the, the car itself, but then there is all the kind of the routing and the load balancing and the optimization and the pre-positioning of all the cars, because…
- ▶ 20:35 Benedict Evans For what we know, I mean, Uber may well be working on it. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker
- ▶ 19:37 Dan Siroker If you look at Lyft and Uber, you'll see that happening to the cab industry.
- ▶ 30:11 Marc Andreessen Yeah, so there's this thing, right, so the thing that's happening right now out here is there are these new companies, and, you know, the headline, you know, headline name companies in Uber and Lyft and Airbnb and all these new companies,… 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | A Copernican Update ... In Tech, the Smartphone is the Center
- ▶ 17:57 Benedict Evans It shut down Bing Maps and sold the Bing Maps assets to Uber. 8 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
a16z Podcast | Innovation and Regulation -- What Happens When Policy Lags Behind Technology?
- ▶ 6:06 Greg Walden If they had to live by all the, the laws of, like they were a hotel, I mean, that doesn't make any sense, or, or Lyft, or, or Uber.
- ▶ 13:00 Sonal Chokshi You say that you took an Uber or Lyft from the airport last night, and I think that makes me, you know, smile, because if you had a bad ride, would you, haven't you ever called an 800 number to report a bad ride, or?
a16z Podcast | The Changing Relationship Between Tech and Government
- ▶ 0:05 Michael Copeland Just a few years ago, if you were mayor of Washington, D.C., or really any other city, you didn't have to wrap your head around the likes of Lyft, Uber, and Airbnb, and the other companies in the fast-growing sharing economy.
- ▶ 3:47 Adrian Fenty Uh, there essentially was no Airbnb, no, no Uber.
a16z Podcast | Latinos and the Tech Economy -- U.S. Reps. Sanchez and Gallego Talk Bridging the Gaps
- ▶ 17:37 Michael Copeland And, and, or Uber and Lyft and transportation, et cetera. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Rise of the Quasi-IPO
- ▶ 1:16 Scott Cooper Yeah, it's easy, right, it's easy to read the fifty billion dollar Uber headlines, right, and, uh, you know, conclude, conclude that we've all gone mad, right, but, uh.
- ▶ 25:36 Benedict Evans So when you look at a company like Uber or Lyft, which are not really competing with the taxi market, it's fundamentally changing what it means to own a car, or Airbnb, which is fundamentally changing what it means to be a hotel, again,…
a16z Podcast | Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile
- ▶ 4:47 Steve Cheney No one understood five years ago that a company like Uber or Lyft would exist today.
- ▶ 10:03 Benedict Evans And it moves that, you know, in the same way you could say that, you know, for Uber or Lyft, it doesn't actually need GPS.
a16z Podcast | Apple Watch -- Looking for New Things Done in New Ways
- ▶ 5:57 Benedict Evans Yeah, and if you remember when the apps came out, the first way, it took several years for Instagram and Uber and all of those kind of killer things to come out as well. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Future of Entertainment and What David Petraeus and the Olsen Twins Can Teach Us
- ▶ 2:55 Brian Grazer But, I mean, I mean, the easiest thing, like, to say is, like, this Uber thing, you know what I mean?
a16z Podcast | Software and Overcoming the Randomness of Birthplace
- ▶ 8:18 Sten Tamkivi And they probably find a place to stay for the evening on Airbnb, and they get an Uber to go there, or Lyft, and, and,
a16z Podcast | How One Startup Went from Being Banned by Regulators to Being Open for Business
- ▶ 3:01 Parker Conrad And, and actually quite a bit of fear because I thought about it as like, gosh, if you're Uber or Lyft, and like everyone uses Uber, then you have this sort of built-in constituency of people who are using the service 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Tackling Senior Care with Help from Technology
a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
- ▶ 28:04 Marc Andreessen So I think what's going to happen is hedge funds are going to spend a billion dollars and they're going to buy a fleet of self-driving cars, and then they're going to bid them out through services like Uber and Lyft, uh, to, to, to, to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:33 Marc Andreessen I mean, it's certainly, you know, nobody's idea of a good time to be a taxi driver in the era of Lyft and Uber, or to be a small independent bookstore in the era of Amazon.
a16z Podcast | What the Apple Watch Is -- and Isn't
- ▶ 11:18 Benedict Evans Rather, it is about you lift your wrist, and you tap on Uber, and you press yes, and then you drop your wrist.
a16z Podcast | The Marketplace Rules
- ▶ 25:56 Jeff Jordan I mean, if you look at one of my favorite infographics is a picture of the Craigslist homepage with each vertical with the, uh, the marketplace that's attacking it, you know, so short-term rentals would be Airbnb and ride sharing is Lyft…
a16z Podcast | The End of Ownership
- ▶ 36:50 unnamed speaker Um, so Joe, you with Airbnb, obviously, and Travis with Uber, and the taxi industry, and so on and so forth.
a16z Podcast | What Makes the Valley Work
- ▶ 19:04 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, there's a pair of companies, Lyft is ours, and then Uber, which is obviously very successful, you know, that I think are a great case study of this right now, you know, which is, um, and they, they're deceptive, like us, you… 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Selling Tech to Everyone -- Changes Everything
- ▶ 20:04 Benedict Evans And so when you have, you know, when you have mobile everywhere, when you have payments being pulled in, when you look at companies like Airbnb or Uber or Lyft, um, where you're actually building companies using this stuff, but they're not… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Startups as Science Experiments -- Can VC Disrupt Academia?
- ▶ 13:13 Vijay Pande And now we're seeing this in other things in terms of Uber and other areas that are trying to push the envelope.
- ▶ 21:37 Marc Andreessen Uh, machine learning meets Uber equals, you know, Lyft and these things, um, uh, and sensors in cars meets revolutionizing the transportation system meets, you know, potential, which means, you know, potentially a significant answer to…
a16z Podcast | Apple Takes on Payments and Your Wrist
- ▶ 13:57 Benedict Evans So there's a buy with Apple Pay button in your app, and up comes a little panel with a fingerprint scanner and says you're going to pay Uber 35 dollars, and you put your finger on the scanner and it goes through.
a16z Podcast | Raising Money and Valuing Startups -- What Happens When Things Don't Go As Planned?
- ▶ 14:41 Danny Shader Or did you mean like the Uber lift thing where like, if you raise enough capital, that's another version of offensive too. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:08 Danielle Morrill I just want to chime in, though, on one other piece of this, which is the idea that, like, a 6000 person company or, or whatever, I don't know how big Uber is huge right now, but not that big yet.
a16z Podcast | The Topic That's Lasted the Entire History of Computing -- Bundling and Unbundling
- ▶ 8:55 Benedict Evans Um, and Uber has maps in it, and Lyft have maps in it.
a16z Podcast | Building Marketplaces with the Power of Community
- ▶ 2:33 unnamed speaker Um, we now have looked at many other types of communities, for example, um, Airbnb, to see how they form and grow community around their site, although the business is slightly different, um, to businesses like Etsy, Uber, yeah.
- ▶ 19:23 unnamed speaker So I think that the, the, the marketplace that everyone talks about today, Uber, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:17 Boris Wurtz When you look at Uber, um, or, or, um, Lyft for that matter, in the end, it's, it's a pretty standardized process. 6 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | People Marketplaces Take On One of the Last Great E-Commerce Opportunities: Groceries
- ▶ 3:32 Jeff Jordan I mean, the, the level of logistics behind restaurant delivery, behind, you know, the Ubers and Lyfts, it is astonishing how these, these are, these are large scale logistical systems.
a16z Podcast | The Rise of Full Stack Startups
- ▶ 0:55 Chris Dixon So, you know, Uber, I think is a good example where 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:13 Balaji Srinivasan And I think that then again, in like 10 or 15 years, you'll be able to build a, uh, logistics company on top of Uber or Lyft for logistics or something like that, because those things will also be reduced APIs.
- ▶ 6:25 Balaji Srinivasan I'm not against like extremely ambitious initial things, but I want to clarify that doing a full stack startup does not mean, um, like take Uber for example. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:07 Benedict Evans You know, obviously Uber doesn't own the cars. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:25 Benedict Evans Um, so, you know, you could look at it at Airbnb or Uber or, you know, any of these companies and say, well, 10 years ago, um, it would have taken you a hundred million dollars just to get the app out of the door.
a16z Podcast | Where is the Technology That "Matters?" Right Here
- ▶ 9:49 Chris Dixon Um, you know, Uber and Lyft and transportation, Airbnb and hospitality, like, like sort of you go through every major segment of the economy and you now have for the first time, Silicon Valley style companies, um, trying to rethink how the…
What's Next for Marketplace Startups
- ▶ 14:05 Li Jin So then starting in the late 2000, um, early half of the 20 tens, we saw the rise of a ton of on demand marketplaces, um, or what we call in the blog post Uber for X marketplaces. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:58 Frank Chen We talked about the Uber for X, and then we sort of have just been talking about managed marketplaces where you need higher 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:15 Li Jin Um, so a perfect example of this is Lyft or Uber.
What's Next in Consumer Startups?
- ▶ 20:47 Andrew Chen And so what that means is all of a sudden there's all these ways that you might mention or talk about companies like Lyft and Uber.
When Software Eats the Real (Estate) World
- ▶ 0:23 Alex Rampell And one way of thinking about this is over there you've got a Lyft car, um, and before Lyft, before Uber, you would take a taxi, it was dirty, it might not show up on time,
10 Years Too Early: On a Tech Career, Business, and Investing
- ▶ 19:30 unnamed speaker So if you have ever seen Uber's tools where Uber engineers are labeling situations, right?
- ▶ 39:43 unnamed speaker Yeah, we agree with you that the consumer applications, right, the direct competitors to sort of Facebook and Airbnb and Lyft and Uber, it's not quite time yet, so maybe a year, maybe two, but think about all of the things that we needed…
Crypto and Decentralization: Building Blocks
- ▶ 2:28 Chris Dixon Um, and that, and that then unlocked, if you think about, like, some of the, some of the most popular applications on smartphones, it's like, for example, Uber and Lyft, right?
An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code
The Oral History of TrialPay -- Obstacles and Opportunities in Payments
- ▶ 28:37 Terry Angelos Well, the ones that work, either work because you kind of leave them alone entirely, or you sort of fully absorb them, and this was a case where we, we took that innovation, put it onto a much, much larger platform at scale, and so, you… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:13 Terry Angelos Um, I mean, I think examples here would be maybe Uber or Toast, um, where you have, you've built all of this functionality
The Autonomy Ecosystem: Where and How It Begins (1 of 8)
- ▶ 12:34 Frank Chen Are you already Lyft and Ubering around?
Rise of the Super App: Mobile-First Product Ideas from China
- ▶ 1:24 Connie Chan So you can actually use your Alipay app to buy movie tickets, train tickets, you can go book an Uber, you can go book an Airbnb.
The Future of Money: Banking on Fintech
- ▶ 1:28 Alex Rampell Um, before there was Uber and Lyft, there was a category called transport. 2 times in the scene
What Happens When Mobile (Really) Hits the Wallet
- ▶ 21:18 Alex Rampell Uber does, Lyft does, even United Airlines does. 2 times in the scene
16 Questions About Self Driving Cars
- ▶ 20:47 Frank Chen And if we just buy transportation as a service, in other words, our brand loyalties drift to companies like Lyft and Uber, and away from companies like GM and BMW, this is a seismic shift in the industry.
- ▶ 29:08 Frank Chen Uber says that its entire fleet will be autonomous by 2030.