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Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 3:04:21 David Rosenthal Never by an order of magnitude had that happened, and all of a sudden the rules of the game have changed, and things are very different, and the amount of pressure on the company, on Benchmark, on the board, on the LPs of Benchmark.
- ▶ 3:04:50 David Rosenthal Uber is not getting marked to market, but you are getting your quarterly marks from Benchmark Fund Seven based on the valuations that Uber has achieved.
- ▶ 3:05:17 Ben Gilbert Thousands and thousands of people, in addition to all the employees and all the customers and the drivers on the platform, like you actually have these thousands, if not tens of thousands of people impacted by these paper valuations at…
- ▶ 3:12:30 David Rosenthal So now in 2017, really kind of in the midst of all the Uber stuff going down, Benchmark brings on another general partner.
- ▶ 3:42:53 Ben Gilbert Uber, Snap, eBay, Riot, Twitter, Discord is still privately held, but, you know, will be a big win.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 1:20:42 David Rosenthal Dropbox, Instagram, Airbnb, Uber, Zynga, all of these companies.
- ▶ 1:31:28 David Rosenthal Airbnb, Uber, you know, Instagram and the like.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 1:23:01 Ben Gilbert I mean, it's one of these situations, it's like an Uber or a Twitter, where you have this idea, and then you put it up, and then that's exactly the thing that people want.
The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories · Acquired
- ▶ 34:46 David Rosenthal Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Tesla, McKinsey, Uber, Twitter, Ford, Stripe, Starbucks, Fidelity, Convoy, Modern Treasury.
American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle) · Acquired
- ▶ 16:50 Katherine Boyle Intelligence agencies or NASA, you know, the kind of classical realm, but also things like Lyft and Uber that were completely transforming public transportation in cities across America.
- ▶ 19:26 Katherine Boyle And so if you talk to people who are in the bureaucracy of government, it's like their private life of catching the Uber to go home, the DoorDash so they can get food delivered.
- ▶ 50:15 David Rosenthal Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Tesla, McKinsey, Uber, Twitter, Autodesk.
Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner) · Acquired
- ▶ 36:03 David Rosenthal They work with Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, McKinsey, Uber, Twitter, Autodesk.
Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi) · Acquired
- ▶ 12:25 Chenyi Shi If we come up with a framework to understand platforms, they should work as well for an Uber or Airbnb of today as they should work for the matchmakers 3000 years ago.
- ▶ 19:05 Hamilton Helmer And so I'll give you an example in Uber.
- ▶ 19:25 Hamilton Helmer By having more drivers and more passengers, it makes it possible for Uber to
- ▶ 21:04 Hamilton Helmer However, I'd argue all other people at Uber and Lyft that know this much better than we do, I'd argue that's not a linear function, right?
- ▶ 23:03 David Rosenthal Well, actually maybe first, can we finish Uber and talk about that third question for Uber?
- ▶ 23:06 David Rosenthal Cause that sort of feels like for Uber at least and Lyft, that's where the rubber hits the road on how valuable are they?
- ▶ 24:47 Ben Gilbert At one point I started a startup that actually got killed by Uber, not willing to play ball with us and cutting off our API, but it's effectively a meta search for ride sharing to be able to find the fastest, closest ride to you…
- ▶ 27:26 Chenyi Shi So the case of Uber and Lyft, we are, Ben, as you said, the drive is undifferentiated.
- ▶ 1:06:45 Hamilton Helmer You know, it's when a driver joins Uber, he makes the platform more valuable to passengers because more efficient route structures are now enabled, right?
- ▶ 1:08:20 Hamilton Helmer I'd say indirect network effects like the one in, in Uber are much more common.
- ▶ 1:10:13 Ben Gilbert Uber and Twitter and Autodesk and a bunch of other great now customers.
- ▶ 1:21:19 David Rosenthal The easy, obvious example of this that has been discussed much in the past decade is Airbnb versus Uber, right?
- ▶ 1:21:31 David Rosenthal Whereas, you know, Uber, it's like, yeah, I can get a car on Uber or Lyft or DD or whatever.
Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:28 Ben Gilbert He led the SPAC that took Grab public in Southeast Asia, and he is widely known as one of the most knowledgeable people in the world on the business of online travel after his involvement in Expedia, Orbitz, Uber, and many others.
Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:55 Ben Gilbert David, I feel like today is the natural culmination of a journey we started in May of 2019 when we did our Uber episode on the day of their IPO.
- ▶ 1:07 Ben Gilbert Well, for listeners who don't know, the events of, you know, Uber leading all the way up through their IPO, and the implosion around that, and the just insane story that all of that was, is coming out as a Showtime series on February 27th…
- ▶ 12:56 David Rosenthal That must just be fun, and it's so, like, well-written profanity, too, and so Uber.
- ▶ 13:47 Joseph Gordon-Levitt To me, Uber serves as a excellent example of a larger trend that I think needs to be talked about, which is what happens when the modus operandi is profits above all.
- ▶ 16:02 Brian Koppelman And so to us, Uber, yeah, there are many Silicon Valley stories, but to us, the Uber story in the way that Mike takes you into it,
- ▶ 16:12 Brian Koppelman The Uber story is one that raises those questions, and we hope the series raises those questions, and maybe the series posits some theories.
- ▶ 26:44 Brian Koppelman In a way that serves us, because we all take Ubers.
- ▶ 26:48 Brian Koppelman But in a way that serves that individual more, and that does a disservice to huge swaths of people that we're not thinking about as we get into the back of the Uber.
- ▶ 26:58 Brian Koppelman So if you get into the back of the Uber and you're like, that guy's cool, but for one moment you think about the person in the office who maybe wasn't treated right, or the driver who thought he was going to have a fleet of cars because…
- ▶ 27:16 Brian Koppelman Maybe you'll just have a moment of empathy for your Uber driver that you wouldn't have.
- ▶ 31:48 David Rosenthal Supposedly, according to what we found, part of his original inspiration for Uber was watching, uh, Casino Royale, the first Daniel Craig James Bond film.
- ▶ 32:26 Ben Gilbert And, you know, so we did this big two and a half hour research episode on, on Uber, and so David and I did a hundred hours of research, and so we found like the quote unquote founding story of Uber, where they're looking over from the…
- ▶ 56:15 Ben Gilbert It turns out a whole bunch of consumers who did these virtual in-home experiences in April of 2020 also worked at places like Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, McKinsey, Uber, Twitter, Autodesk, etc.
- ▶ 1:00:58 Joseph Gordon-Levitt Is interesting to me about the Uber story that I was touching on earlier also, which is a lot of it does come down to what's the incentive?
- ▶ 1:03:29 Ben Gilbert Many of you were very, very close to this story, and so it'll be fascinating to experience it as a series when so many of you experienced it, either through a friend or family member or you personally being at Uber as a lot of these events…
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:26:24 Ben Gilbert Well, it turns out a bunch of consumers who did these virtual in-home experiences in April of 2020 also worked at places like Amazon and Microsoft and Apple and McKinsey and Uber and Twitter and Autodesk.
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired
- ▶ 47:33 Ben Gilbert Airbnb and Uber are starting.
FTX with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 32:28 Ben Gilbert And for all of our listeners out there who are not familiar with, like, the trading world, I'm gonna make a way oversimplified, uh, comparison here, but imagine running, uh, Airbnb or Uber, but you don't actually have the hard part of any…
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- ▶ 30:15 Packy McCormick One of my jobs was Julian said, there's a guy at Uber who does a job similar to the one that you want to do.
- ▶ 30:27 Packy McCormick And so that ended up being Josh Moore, who was the New York city general manager at Uber.
- ▶ 33:09 Packy McCormick I called Josh and was like, Hey, you have that Uber rush thing.
- ▶ 33:13 Packy McCormick Is there any chance that we could get Uber rush
- ▶ 33:20 Packy McCormick And so we actually, I was the largest consumer of Uber rush messengers in the world for a while.
- ▶ 33:45 Packy McCormick And I think part of that is probably what became Uber Eats ultimately is these people kind of are moving around the city on, on their bikes, but we had a slider in the Uber app where I would call, hopefully there was somebody nearby.
- ▶ 33:45 Packy McCormick And I think part of that is probably what became Uber Eats ultimately is these people kind of are moving around the city on, on their bikes, but we had a slider in the Uber app where I would call, hopefully there was somebody nearby.
- ▶ 34:43 Packy McCormick I chose to work with, with Uber.
- ▶ 36:51 Packy McCormick I'd say the last kind of turning point and the last kind of thing that contributed to Not Boring was we deeply overexpanded our supply because we had been given advice by people on the board and others who said, you're pretty much like…
- ▶ 37:07 Packy McCormick The job for Uber is to get as much supply on the map as humanly possible.
- ▶ 37:15 David Rosenthal The catch was there was actually demand for Uber.
- ▶ 37:18 Packy McCormick There was demand for Uber and Uber supply could come and go and Uber didn't have to pay them anything.
- ▶ 48:05 Ben Gilbert Uh, I was trying to figure out listeners how to do the thing that I did during the Uber episode where I bring in the share price at every moment throughout history.
Complexity Investing & Semiconductors with NZS Capital (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:52:46 Ben Gilbert And when you say negative feedback loop, you basically mean a governor on the growth, like a natural force in that particular business that makes it so you can't have ludicrous, you know, Uber style hyper growth.
Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:07:27 David Rosenthal At a certain point, you know, just like Uber and, you know, Lyft today are like, you know, the,
Standard Oil Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 59:03 David Rosenthal And it's kind of like, ah, this whole, this whole, like part of the story just reminded me so much of like the Uber days.
- ▶ 59:11 David Rosenthal You remember when Uber went out and raised all that money and it was like, oh, we're going to flatten Lyft and
- ▶ 59:17 David Rosenthal Uh, and DD and all the global competitors that like, ah, it was totally, it was the Uber playbook, except like, it really worked.
- ▶ 59:26 David Rosenthal Speaking of Uber, right after, uh, William goes to New York, the sort of, um, shall we say, Emil Michael character of, uh, uh, of Standard Oil.
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