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Kalanick: Not acquiring Lyft was right due to incompatible corporate cultures
“I wouldn't do anything different. And it's easy to say now, but I got a lot of shit for that for a long time. But it was basically, I would sit across the table from the guys, and I just didn't It was just clear that we were very culturally different, and you …”
Travis Kalanick Aug 13, 2026 ▶ 23:39 Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World
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Kalanick calls Elon Musk the undisputed leader in industrial AI
“Who's the best of the best at industrial AI? Anybody want to guess? It's really obvious. His name rhymes with Shmilon, ok? He's the best of the best. And he'll just keep going and keep doing lots more, even if what you do now is not what he does now. So if you…”
Travis Kalanick Aug 13, 2026 ▶ 49:44 Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World
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Kalanick: Musk buying Twitter enabled tech founders to speak their minds
“Elon buying Twitter is like the beginning of us being able to speak our minds and for disagreeing to not be illegal.”
Travis Kalanick Aug 13, 2026 ▶ 53:19 Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World
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Kalanick: Industrial tasks require specialized robotics, not humanoid robots
“Humanoids are like low scale, do low scale tasks in human environments. If you're doing high scale tasks, industrial scale tasks, you are going to make specialized machines that move and act in the physical world.”
Travis Kalanick Aug 13, 2026 ▶ 12:05 Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World
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Kalanick: Post-Uber founders are not scared of government regulation
“Entrepreneurs that are coming up since the Uber time. Are not scared of regulation the way that bits.”
Travis Kalanick Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 1:20:37 Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
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Kalanick: Physical AI work continues the mission started at Uber
“We've been doing this for a long time, ok? This is a continuation of a lot of the awesome things we did back in the Uber day.”
Travis Kalanick Aug 13, 2026 ▶ 1:47 Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World
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