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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?
- ▶ 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
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