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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Uber comes up
Big Ideas 2024: The Consumer AI Battleground Moves from Model to UX with Alex Immerman
- ▶ 9:45 Alex Immerman My colleague Jamie Sullivan would say it's the difference between being one of the hundreds of compass apps in the app store and Uber using the geo locations of a smartphone to build an application that wasn't possible before and for which…
- ▶ 10:36 unnamed speaker I love that Uber example. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:02 Alex Immerman Beyond that, much like Uber and Snapchat could not have been predicted when the iPhone came out, we don't know what gen AI will bring, but we're excited.
Tony Robbins on the Future of Health & Longevity
- ▶ 1:17:28 Tony Robbins And I said, hey, look at what just happened, you know, in the, you know, the world financial crisis, the number of jobs of people just driving Ubers, taxis, and trucks.
Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta's Jason Gardner
- ▶ 10:20 Jason Gardner And when we started talking to the food delivery companies like DoorDash and Postmates and then became Uber Eats and eBay had our product, that's when we started to really see the value that we were providing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:05 Jason Gardner Uber Eats and Uber still our customers.
- ▶ 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