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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where UberX comes up on 20VC, Lenny's Podcast, Acquired, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast, How I Built This
Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash
- ▶ 12:26 Andrew Macdonald (Mac) If you try to do it like as five percent of your job, like, you know, I run the marketplace for UberX in the US, but I'm also trying to incubate this other thing with two percent of my time.
- ▶ 15:29 Andrew Macdonald (Mac) Like taking an UberX to and from work every day in New York City for like, 35 bucks a direction, that's still a luxury product, right? 2 times in the scene
Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber
- ▶ 13:41 Travis Kalanick Think of, you know, some people would think of Lyft or UberX, this kind of thing in the US context.
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World
- ▶ 3:23 unnamed speaker We are able to create safe, low-cost transportation options, like UberPool and UberX.
NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:09 Jason Lemkin They added, they added Uber X now, now for five bucks, I can get to work and nothing changed.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 42:32 M.G. Siegler And, you know, there was the notion, I think the early notion of what Uber X would become where it, you know, more democratizes the model and it's not just about black cars, but it wasn't fully baked yet.
20Product: Figma CPO on How Figma Builds Products: What Works, What Does Not | How Figma Does Testing and Product Reviews | The Future of Design, Engineering and Product with Yuhki Yamashita
- ▶ 51:57 unnamed speaker People were worried that when juxtaposed against the cheaper UberX or Uber pool prices, that would take a hit.
DoorDash CEO: Customer Obsession, Surviving Startup Death & Creating A New Market · Y Combinator
#87 Uber for Pets
- ▶ 8:59 Charles Hudson UberX is a tough business.
- ▶ 11:06 Michael Hyatt I love what Charles had to say, which kind of got me off of the UberX and onto the Uber Blacks.
Brian Tolkin, Head of Product @Opendoor: How to Hire the Best Product Teams | E1257 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:24 Brian Tolkin Uh, back in the early days of UberPool, um, uh, the way you accessed the product was a sort of this, um, subset of UberX. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:09 Brian Tolkin I think the biggest challenge with going from, from single product to multi product, I mean, I, I actually described probably the biggest fuck up was, was probably the one that I described, uh, previously was like, that was Uber going from…
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:40 Shervin Pishevar They saw Uber launch with black cars, and so they launched effectively what became UberX later. 2 times in the scene
Conscious leadership: Unlocking vision, strategy and purpose | JM Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)
- ▶ 11:36 JM Nickels You know, the company kind of really just built the Uber X model and scaled it out to the world. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:23 JM Nickels And one of the, I guess, big ah-hahs for us is, uh, you know, we're, as we move away from the kind of, um, in some ways, some poor world of UberX, right? 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 83 | With Rippling COO Matt MacInnis
- ▶ 14:37 Matt MacInnis It was, it was uber comfort and not uber X, but anyway.
Scott Gorlick: How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers & The Uber’s Expansion Playbook | E1196 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:38 Scott Gorlick So even though we were in 2014 and the business was five years along, like, the unit economics as we launched Hooper X and had more competitors actually got worse over time because you started spending so much money to acquire drivers, to…
- ▶ 15:20 Scott Gorlick And while you can create more and get more on board, you're never going to build like the massive TAM business unless you open it up for UberX. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:20 Scott Gorlick Um, I think, like, we had strong product market fit, but I think, like, what was particularly interesting about Free UberX Week, looking back on it 10 years later, uh, in hindsight, was the competitive dynamics, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:09 Scott Gorlick But what we did on UberX really inflamed them. 2 times in the scene
Lessons from scaling Uber and Opendoor | Brian Tolkin (Head of Product at Opendoor, ex-Uber)
- ▶ 0:57 Lenny Rachitsky Before that, he spent nearly five years at Uber, where he joined as employee 100 before Uber had UberX or UberPool or any kind of shared rides.
- ▶ 12:32 Brian Tolkin So in the, in the early days of, of Uber, one, one kind of fun story is, uh, obviously Uber access is a very main mainstream product, but has a kind of funny, silly name, um, Uber, Uber X, uh, this, this product in the early days was, uh,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:06 Brian Tolkin And then as we, we got into more mass market products, like Uber taxi or Uber X, those like, okay, maybe 20 or 30 at a time. 2 times in the scene
Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- ▶ 12:42 Mike Maples, Jr. So like when, when Lyft launched ridesharing and then Uber closely followed, right, with UberX, nobody after riding a rideshare said, oh, how's that different from taxis?
Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 38:19 Emil Michael The only thing you could attribute it to, because they started, frankly, they started ride sharing the UberEx equivalent before we did.
Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:30 Phin Barnes That Travis would figure out UberX.
- ▶ 46:10 Phin Barnes Um, I think that in the first case, whether it's Travis needing to know that there's UberX or it's Ivan needing to know that there's going to be, you know,
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
- ▶ 56:03 Dara Khosrowshahi We have a number of growth bets, which is there's this base business UberX, which is like going to be 50% of our growth.
- ▶ 1:01:45 Dara Khosrowshahi You know, you might, uh, click for an UberX, a taxi might show up, right?
Hot takes and techno-optimism from tech’s top power couple | Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 1:02:33 Aarthi Ramamurthy Uber is, like, doing this whole, like, UberX thing where it was, like, people having their cars, and they could, like, do this thing, and I was like, well, and at that time, I think this whole, like, shared ownership of stuff became such a…
The art and science of pricing | Madhavan Ramanujam (Monetizing Innovation, Simon-Kucher)
- ▶ 51:30 Madhavan Ramanujam There's an Uber black, UberX. 2 times in the scene
Martin Escobari: How to Invest During a Recession; Negotiation Tips; Developing Markets | 20VC #948 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:05 Martin Escobari Launching UberX and UberEats and all the, all these, all the extensions that, that Uber did, and we missed it.
Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired
- ▶ 1:22:42 Ben Gilbert I mean, like learning from Lyft's discovery of the UberX model, like that's the business.
Reinventing Home Ownership and Concierge Businesses With Sam Parr | Where It Happens
- ▶ 21:22 Greg Isenberg Then they're like, ok, UberX. 2 times in the scene
Matching Price to Value: 3 Lessons in Monetization from Menlo Ventures
- ▶ 7:25 Menlo Ventures Investor If you value speed, you might opt in for an UberX.
Lyft's John Zimmer At The HIBT Summit
20VC: Being A Wartime Leader in a Time of Peace, Why Marketing Channel Diversification Is Like The Life of A Scientist and Why Small and Mighty Beats Loud and Weak with Ooshma Garg, Founder & CEO @ Gobble
- ▶ 28:42 Ooshma Garg And a very interesting thing is that we're only serving 10 to 15% of the population by income, and I think there's a huge opportunity for the UberX of our industry to serve the mass market that actually needs this the most and help them…
Lyft: John Zimmer (2017)
Lyft: John Zimmer
20VC: Binary's Justin Caldbeck on Specialisation Being Key To Success In VC, The Biggest Problem In VC Today and Why The Future Is A Moneyless Barter Economy
- ▶ 21:45 Justin Caldbeck I mean, I met Ryan when the company was 10 people, and I just, I didn't get how people could afford to be paying 50 dollars for rides that were, you know, eight, 10 blocks, and at that point, there was no notion of UberX, period, right?
20VC: When To Transition From Growth to Profitability & The KPI's of The On Demand Economy with Frank Mycroft @ Booster Fuels
- ▶ 7:46 Frank Mycroft They had to get there and they had a very complicated path of the black cars and Uber X and markets that they pursued to eventually get there.
20VC: Creating A Competitive Process Between VCs & Having Bill Gurley As A Board Member with Aaron Hirschhorn, Founder & CEO @ DogVacay
- ▶ 14:06 Aaron Hirschhorn And probably the best example of that is, is UberX. 2 times in the scene