Uber, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Uber comes up
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.