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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Uber comes up
Why Investors Are Rethinking Everything for the AI Era
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World
- ▶ 0:04 Travis Kalanick People said, are you pissed off about Uber? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:49 Travis Kalanick This is a continuation of a lot of the awesome things we did back in the Uber day.
- ▶ 2:25 unnamed speaker For Uber, the bit represents our technology. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:33 Travis Kalanick Uh, I think I'm making a lot of the folks that are at Uber, they're like, we're tired of it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:22 Travis Kalanick So like, of course, go back to 2014 Uber. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:00 Ben Horowitz I think it, I mean, you, you'd have to do the counterfactual if Travis was still running Uber, uh, because 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:14 Ben Horowitz Talk about how you're different as a founder building atoms than you were building Uber in terms of what have you changed? 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:03 Travis Kalanick She was head of Uber Eats, uh, Japan.
- ▶ 46:14 Travis Kalanick This is a couple of companies before Uber. 3 times in the scene
Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- ▶ 0:00 Travis Kalanick We know what Uber's 2017 was like. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38 Erik Torenberg oh so close to partnering up at Uber in 2011. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:13 Travis Kalanick Uber started at 2010. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:56 Ben Horowitz That kind of got off to a very, very difficult start, you know, largely because of Uber.
- ▶ 12:52 Travis Kalanick That kind of just was the extra texture on the Uber experience, at least for me.
- ▶ 13:22 Travis Kalanick Well, what I would say is there's one middle piece to this, which is those who are obviously in the tech industry, like we know what Uber's 2017 was like. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:11 Travis Kalanick That was sort of coming in on, on Uber and trying to constrain it, if that makes sense. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:19 Travis Kalanick so I had a buddy who started a thing right near the end of my Uber tenure, um, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:46 Travis Kalanick We got Uber, we got Uber Eats up in 2015. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:01 Travis Kalanick So look, the, the vision for digitizing the physical world for me started at Uber. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:37 Travis Kalanick And, you know, folks like, you know, folks like Uber, other partners across different categories were like, were interested. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:56 Travis Kalanick I realized this at Uber too, is that I think it may was maybe, maybe Bezos was the guy to sort of really go there, which is, uh, the only constraint to your imagination is management capacity.
- ▶ 53:26 Travis Kalanick Once you get the foothold, the beachhead, whatever, and it's working, you can start going, you go Uber rides, then it's Uber Eats, then it's Uber Autonomy, then it was Uber Freight, then it's like Uber AI Labs, like, you can start letting… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:26 Travis Kalanick Once you get the foothold, the beachhead, whatever, and it's working, you can start going, you go Uber rides, then it's Uber Eats, then it's Uber Autonomy, then it was Uber Freight, then it's like Uber AI Labs, like, you can start letting…
- ▶ 53:26 Travis Kalanick Once you get the foothold, the beachhead, whatever, and it's working, you can start going, you go Uber rides, then it's Uber Eats, then it's Uber Autonomy, then it was Uber Freight, then it's like Uber AI Labs, like, you can start letting…
- ▶ 53:26 Travis Kalanick Once you get the foothold, the beachhead, whatever, and it's working, you can start going, you go Uber rides, then it's Uber Eats, then it's Uber Autonomy, then it was Uber Freight, then it's like Uber AI Labs, like, you can start letting…
- ▶ 57:08 Travis Kalanick The founder of Uber is now the CEO.
- ▶ 1:06:07 Travis Kalanick I, I started seeing that on rides at Uber, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:23 Travis Kalanick A problem creator might be like, ah, like creating a problem might be like, hey, let's do Uber in China.
- ▶ 1:13:47 Erik Torenberg And so, if you, if you had still been running Uber, um, you know, in this other universe, or some of the vision that you have here with atoms, would that have been, you know, could you have gotten to mining with, like.
- ▶ 1:14:22 Travis Kalanick That's the future of Uber Eats too.
- ▶ 1:19:11 Ben Horowitz Like the Uber and Atoms. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:39 Travis Kalanick Entrepreneurs that are coming up since the Uber time.
- ▶ 1:28:11 Erik Torenberg So, we were talking offline, you were saying when you started Uber, um, you, you know, worked with people who would choose to work with you.
- ▶ 1:30:59 Erik Torenberg And if you're joining now, you're joining both with the benefit of having, you know, uh, all the lessons you've learned and things you've proven out with cloud kitchens, and of course, Uber before that, so almost two decades, but early…
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 12:47 Qasar Younis There's more resistance to Ubers, to DoorDashes.
- ▶ 37:34 Qasar Younis There was a huge, like, and then it, it comes and we, by, by oh seven from the iPhone launch, like it's like four years when you get Uber, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:16 Qasar Younis Actually, what it is, is those people that used to work at McDonald's, now DoorDash and Uber.
- ▶ 56:48 unnamed speaker So you were talking earlier about how, when, you know, um, the technology got, got so good in mobile that there was a wave of these companies, you know, Uber, WhatsApp, Snap, you know, Airbnb, et cetera, that emerged in quick succession.
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 35:41 Benedict Evans But again, we're in 1997 and I'm trying to predict Uber and Airbnb and
The Founders Who Left Tesla to Rebuild America | a16z
- ▶ 20:28 Turner Caldwell Um, and the, the software space, um, you know, a lot of the underlying optimization algorithms that we're writing for our plants, they look very, very similar to, uh, the optimization algorithms that are in dog walking apps and, uh, Uber…
How to Reorg After AI Changes Everything | Block's Owen Jennings on the a16z Show
- ▶ 20:08 Owen Jennings For the past 10 or 15 years, everyone's used to a static UI, a rigid UI, you tap through the UI, everyone has the same, everyone's Uber or Lyft or Cash App or whatever looks the same.
Inside The Life of Silicon Valley's First Athlete Investor | Magic Johnson
- ▶ 29:40 Earvin "Magic" Johnson You know, um, you heard about too late between the Ubers and all the deals like that, that you say, wow, you know, ah, you had an opportunity, but you just, ah, didn't pull the plug, I mean, you didn't pull the, the, the string to write…
AI Markets: Deep Dive with a16z's David George
- ▶ 46:44 David George The customers of our portfolio companies to be the modern thinking ones, you know, the door dashes of the world, um, you know, the Instacarts of the world, the Ubers of the world, then the very, very old school stodgy companies.
The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 41:38 Alex Rampell Great answer for Uber. 3 times in the scene
Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
- ▶ 19:57 Marc Andreessen We just see more and more examples where the mistake that we or others make is, oh, this must be a, you know, the market for Uber and Lyft must be the market for taxi cabs, right?