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Kalanick continues to stand by every decision he made at Uber
“I continue to stand by every decision I made at Uber.”
Kalanick: Automated food delivery will eventually undercut grocery store costs
“Is production of food going to get automated? And is the delivery of food going to get automated? I think we'd all say yes. And if that's the case, then there will be a service that, that prepares and delivers that food at cheaper than going to the grocery sto…”
Kalanick: Efficient meal delivery will replace home kitchens like Uber replaced cars
“The meaningful thing about Adam's food is, can you make the preparation and delivery of a quality meal so efficient that it approaches the cost of going to the grocery store? If it does, You do to the kitchen what Uber did to the car.”
Kalanick: a16z agreed to $375M pre-money valuation for Uber in 2011
“In this particular case, Yuri was almost coming over the top, so we got to three 75, with a three seven hundred seventy five million pre, with a 16 Z. Yuri almost came in at 400, but he was like, nah, I can't do it.”
Kalanick: Marc Andreessen cut a16z's Uber Series B valuation to $210M
“And he said, look, I know we talked about three 75, but went to the partnership. They don't agree, or they just didn't think it was the right number. We're the best we're going to be able to do is two 10.”
Kalanick: Uber's autonomous driving program was second only to Waymo in 2017
“Our timing program was like second to Waymo, but catching up at the time.”
Kalanick: Autonomous couriers will drop food delivery costs to under $1
“Once we get the couriers, the robotic couriers, you go from 12 dollars a drop for each meal to 50 cents. A dollar of distribution cost per meal.”
Kalanick confirms Anthony Levandowski and Eric Meyhofer joined Atoms robotics
“Anthony Lewandowski, of course Eric Maihofer, who ran Uber's advanced technology group. He's running food robotics.”
Kalanick barred thousands of employees from listing his company on LinkedIn
“We had thousands of employees who were not allowed to put our company on LinkedIn.”
Kalanick: DoorDash held only 5% market share when he left Uber
“DoorDash was five percent market share when I left.”
Kalanick reveals global brand pseudonyms used by CloudKitchens in stealth
“So people know it as cloud kitchens in the U.S., but it's Casinos Aqueltas in Latin America. And we have different names. That means, like, magical kitchens, essentially. We have, like, Kitchen Valley in Korea. We have Flash Kitchen and three other names in Ch…”
Kalanick says former Uber CFO and engineering VP joined Atoms
“Gautam, who was the CFO over at Uber has joined Adams. That's a recent thing. Ganesh, who was A VP or SVP of engineering over at Uber has just joined Adams”
Kalanick: a16z's initial Lyft investment was valued at $210 million
“And the deal on Lyft was two 10.”
Kalanick: CloudKitchens operates hundreds of facilities across 30 countries
“We have hundreds of facilities in 30 countries, many hundreds of facilities in 30 countries.”
Kalanick: Uber's first venture round had a $4M pre-money valuation
“Our first round at Uber was four million pre.”
Kalanick: Scour was sued for $250B by 33 major media companies
“This is a couple of companies before Uber. I did a peer to peer file sharing system, got sued for a quarter of a trillion dollars by 33 of the largest media companies in the world”