Travis Kalanick, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Travis Kalanick comes up
Nike (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:22:52 David Rosenthal What's the uber corporate value toe stepping from the Travis era?
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
- ▶ 39:06 Dara Khosrowshahi Yeah, and also everything going on and what led to it, you know, the, the battle between Travis and Benchmark and all that stuff.
- ▶ 47:38 Ben Gilbert And, I mean, to directly ask, did you get to talk to Travis?
- ▶ 47:43 Dara Khosrowshahi Well, I talked to Travis a couple times.
- ▶ 1:03:26 Dara Khosrowshahi Travis sold all his shares.
- ▶ 1:04:10 Dara Khosrowshahi oh my god, Travis is selling, what does that mean, et cetera, like, and, and, you know, there's this, everyone wants to create drama around Uber, so it, it's difficult as a leader to, um,
- ▶ 1:04:28 Dara Khosrowshahi And Travis, you know, whether you liked him or not, you respect him.
- ▶ 1:05:41 Dara Khosrowshahi Obviously Benchmark and Travis were in this power struggle, but there, there was this, um,
- ▶ 1:07:27 Dara Khosrowshahi And, um, the, the issue that we had to deal with was one where Benchmark and Travis and, and the founders, they all had high vote shares.
- ▶ 1:08:58 Dara Khosrowshahi And in the end, we got everyone, including Travis, Benchmark, everyone agreed to essentially switch over high vote to low vote.
Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 28:18 Ben Gilbert I'm not a Travis Kalanick-like person.
Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired
- ▶ 37:11 Peter Fenton And I think that we could talk about Uber, we could, I have every reason to believe Travis's purpose was, um, the biggest, most extraordinary Uber imaginable.
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 1:17:36 David Rosenthal We were talking about the legendary twist episode one 80 with you and Travis.
- ▶ 1:17:48 Jason Calacanis I can talk about Travis.
- ▶ 1:18:05 Jason Calacanis Sokka was there too, but he already, he had a relationship with Travis, so I can't take any credit for that.
- ▶ 1:26:04 Jason Calacanis And somebody like Travis would be like,
- ▶ 2:06:12 Jason Calacanis Like, we want to keep this stealthy, but I mean, Travis knew, but, you know, it was, it was a pretty great deal, you know.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 2:56:18 Ben Gilbert The original Uber pitch is actually Garrett Camp coming in and pitching the limo thing, and Travis isn't CEO yet, and then finally Travis gets in the seat.
- ▶ 2:56:58 David Rosenthal They knew they wanted to do the deal.
- ▶ 2:57:11 David Rosenthal And so he had taken like an Uber down from San Francisco to
- ▶ 2:57:21 David Rosenthal The benchmark guys knew what was going on while Travis is inside at Sequoia, just up the street.
- ▶ 2:57:26 David Rosenthal They call the Uber away.
- ▶ 2:57:38 David Rosenthal Then after they do the deal, they send him a pair of Nikes as like a joke.
- ▶ 2:57:43 David Rosenthal And then, uh, right after that, Travis goes on J Cal's show on Twist, one of the best Twist episodes ever, episode one 80, and talks about the deal.
- ▶ 2:57:53 Ben Gilbert And, um, Is that where he talks about the Michael Ovitz episode too?
- ▶ 2:57:59 David Rosenthal And just watching that, I was like, man, like, God, Travis was sharp.
- ▶ 2:58:03 Ben Gilbert Was, is, he's just behind the scenes now.
- ▶ 2:58:05 David Rosenthal You know, I mean, great upside, great downside, but like, man, he was good, and Uber was good, and those days were something special.
- ▶ 2:58:12 David Rosenthal Anyway, so Jason asked Travis in that moment, the deal had just gotten done.
- ▶ 2:58:31 David Rosenthal But Jason asks Travis on this episode, why'd you go with benchmark?
- ▶ 2:58:35 David Rosenthal And Travis just like, doesn't blink.
- ▶ 3:01:10 David Rosenthal And some of those were the company's fault, and some of those were Travis's fault, and some weren't.
- ▶ 3:02:05 David Rosenthal And the company and Travis never changed that stance.
- ▶ 3:02:22 David Rosenthal And I don't think the company and Travis moved along with them
- ▶ 3:03:02 David Rosenthal You get to a certain point with Uber and, you know, a few years in, like, so we start out with Benchmark and Bill and Travis and the company are besties, you know, lock arms for life, right?
- ▶ 3:03:17 David Rosenthal You listen to all the interviews with Bill that Travis is like, you know, the best, most shining example of representing of an entrepreneur I've ever worked with, all this stuff.
- ▶ 3:07:02 Ben Gilbert There's a lot of people who deliberately do not want to be Travis.
- ▶ 3:08:40 Ben Gilbert And on top of that, they sued Travis, remember?
Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:21 Ben Gilbert Joe, as many of you already know, stars in Super Pumped, playing Travis Kalanick, or TK.
- ▶ 10:59 Brian Koppelman And so, there were all these things that we needed Travis to be, because we also needed Travis to be somebody who you believed could enlist all these people in his world-changing vision, and we needed an actor who wouldn't try to protect…
- ▶ 12:32 Joseph Gordon-Levitt Travis's egos getting in the way needs to be checked.
- ▶ 13:17 Joseph Gordon-Levitt It's our, you know, hunter gather ancestry or something, but most of us don't indulge that urge because there are consequences to pay if you do and get to see the consequences that Travis suffered because he did because, but Travis does.
- ▶ 17:36 Brian Koppelman So there's all these amazing moral questions and life questions for TK, many for Ariana.
- ▶ 19:55 Joseph Gordon-Levitt I had a couple of conversations with Mike, but no, mostly I just read his book and beyond that, I wanted to talk to a bunch of people that worked closely with Travis, uh, because I wanted to know not just what happened, but
- ▶ 22:45 Joseph Gordon-Levitt And I think Travis will be more instantly winning because if you're on camera, people respond to confidence.
- ▶ 22:51 Joseph Gordon-Levitt And Travis Galanick is nothing if not confident.
- ▶ 23:08 David Rosenthal Joe, you know, the responding to confidence in your thought that like people will like Travis more than you might think.
- ▶ 24:10 Brian Koppelman It's not impossible that you'll have some empathy for Travis or sympathy for moments or think he, in some micro moments, was treated wrongly by people who aren't really his equal in the field of war or whatever, but there are moments
- ▶ 30:19 David Rosenthal The show shows this so well, like so, so well, like, cause yeah, Travis, you know, like a lot of what you're describing about an artist was him.
- ▶ 32:09 Ben Gilbert I'm trying to keep this as spoiler free as possible, but you do have a means of storytelling in the show where you're showing the way that Travis sort of remembers something happening, but it's of course a very apocryphal story, and then…
- ▶ 41:07 Brian Koppelman And also this story offers you things like, you know, when you read Mike's book, the thing that happened with Sergey Brin and Gabby and TK,
- ▶ 42:14 Ben Gilbert There's a scene where Travis is watching a YouTube video of Jeff Bezos, and a very familiar actor is playing Jeff Bezos, and I couldn't help but laugh, and I'm like, no way.