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AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 6:00 Erik Torenberg Whereas they look at something like mobile and say, Hey, you know, there were big companies like Uber and snap and, and, uh, Instagram and WhatsApp, but these were,
- ▶ 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,
- ▶ 47:51 Benedict Evans We also don't have YouTube or Uber. 5 times in the scene
The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- ▶ 9:10 Jonathan Swanson You can do it on a date, between lunch, you know, in the Uber.
- ▶ 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.
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- ▶ 46:10 Erik Torenberg Some argue that, you know, mobile was, was ultimately sustaining in that although there were, you know, net new companies and use cases that were, you know, a hundred billion dollars like Uber and Airbnb, et cetera, that, uh, you know, the… 3 times in the scene
Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
- ▶ 9:20 Vlad Tenev You know, he juxtaposed sort of like Uber the name and it's like, ah, it just sounds like this company that's gonna get slammed hard by regulatory scrutiny.
- ▶ 14:08 Vlad Tenev And when I moved back to San Francisco, it was around the same time that Uber had launched black car.
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 19:46 Eugenia Kuyda And then, of course, people figure out, well, you know, there's some, something special about this being a mobile, mobile app, and maybe GPS and connectivity, and things like Uber and Tinder came out of the whole new categories of apps.
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 26:53 Kevin Rose Like when we, you and I were at GV and we did the Uber investment, how many startups did we say that the book, I'm the Uber for this. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:25 Kevin Rose I think the lossy nature of it, and for people who don't know what we're talking about, like a lossless would be every word verbatim recorded in a diary somewhere that is, you know, one hack away from our personal conversation and the Uber…
How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 15:26 Augusto Marietti Sunday at six a.m. to go for a walk, ah, to decide to invest or not, and he knows I'm a night hall, and, and he just Sunday at six a.m. to go to, go down to Palo Alto, which I had, I had to rent a zip car, there were zip cars, there was no…
- ▶ 18:35 Augusto Marietti But it never became this Airbnb or Uber of APIs.
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 55:54 Erik Torenberg When we look at mobile, there were big companies built, you know, like Uber and WhatsApp and Instagram and TikTok, but the biggest beneficiaries were Facebook and, and, and Google.
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 1:54 Chris Dixon Things like Uber and Venmo and Stack Overflow, as you mentioned, and just, you know, sort of revolved in a bunch of these networks as, as the internet evolved.
Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?
- ▶ 19:37 Leo Polovets And if you look at like the Airbnb, you know, Uber, like 2000 tennis era, it's kind of the opposite, right?
- ▶ 31:38 Martin Casado The story for autonomous vehicles is, is that even after the industry's put a hundred billion dollars in it, a hundred billion, the unit economics are still, you know, let's call it on par with Uber.
- ▶ 42:50 Leo Polovets You can also do like more investments that like, you know, a fraction of the ownership and then each investment maybe moves the needle less, but you have a higher chance of hitting like, you know, the type of the year, the Uber of the year.
- ▶ 47:44 Leo Polovets Where you start with, you know, like no buttons on the iPhone, or you got like Uber instead of taxi, it's a stranger driving.
Ben Horowitz Shares the a16z Origin Story & Plans for the Future
- ▶ 30:52 Erik Torenberg There already is a, that's the, uh, the Uberflex is Uber.
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.
Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy
- ▶ 7:58 Dwarkesh Patel If you just look at the example of Waymo versus Uber, I think previously you could have had this thing about people will be hesitate to take automated rides.
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 7:57 Balaji Srinivasan Uber is the network.
- ▶ 1:12:21 Balaji Srinivasan They didn't want another trillion dollar company, certainly not a libertarian one.
- ▶ 1:32:35 Balaji Srinivasan Sometimes it's money where there's like, you know, uh, for example, at Uber, like the VCs there wanted money and, uh, Travis didn't want to sell or IPO.
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.
The State of Consumer Tech in the Age of AI
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…
How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next
- ▶ 58:09 Marc Andreessen Um, and probably the first two of those, you know, that really, you know, kind of made this clear for me were, you know, Uber and Airbnb, right? 4 times in the scene
Autonomy is no longer a moonshot—it’s a market
- ▶ 8:55 Qasar Younis The Waymo stuff is really a true, you know, it's like a ride-sharing product that ultimately is kind of a replacement for Uber for more than anything else.
Automating Developer Email with MCP and AI Agents
- ▶ 13:24 Zeno Rocha This is a designer that works at Uber, and he was telling me how, like, for the past two weeks, he didn't open Figma.
Why AI Voice Feels More Human Than Ever
- ▶ 15:18 Steph Smith It's kind of like, you know, the Uber, Airbnb, you know, I'm not gonna, no one's gonna wanna stay in a stranger's house, you know, drive in a stranger's car, and then what do you know?
- ▶ 29:39 Steph Smith I mean, we talked about apps like Uber, where it's like, you know, you have to get the customers quickly, and you maybe have to blow a lot of cash to get there, but you, you know, you rein that back in later. 2 times in the scene
How AI is Reshaping Labor Markets: A $Trillion-Dollar Opportunity Explained
- ▶ 34:32 Alex Rampell Um, what's interesting is things like Uber or Facebook where