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Kalanick: Post-departure NYC regulations turned Uber into an expensive taxi system
“And if people are taking Ubers today in New York and wondering why it's so expensive, And why it's getting more unreliable. It's because after I left Uber, they started passing a bunch of laws that are turning Uber into the taxi system. They've, they have a li…”
Kalanick: Uber spent tens of millions monthly fighting Didi in China
“So we were spending, let's say tens of millions of dollars a month fighting DD in all these cities.”
Kalanick confirms Anthony Levandowski and Eric Meyhofer joined Atoms robotics
“Anthony Lewandowski, of course Eric Maihofer, who ran Uber's advanced technology group. He's running food robotics.”
Travis Kalanick Announces $1.7 Billion Raise for Adams
“I announced earlier today we did a 1.7 billion dollar raise.”
Kalanick: DoorDash held only 5% market share when he left Uber
“DoorDash was five percent market share when I left.”
Kalanick reveals global brand pseudonyms used by CloudKitchens in stealth
“So people know it as cloud kitchens in the U.S., but it's Casinos Aqueltas in Latin America. And we have different names. That means, like, magical kitchens, essentially. We have, like, Kitchen Valley in Korea. We have Flash Kitchen and three other names in Ch…”
Kalanick: Rare earth minerals are constrained by regulation, not physical scarcity
“Yeah, but it's not rare. It's what you have to do to the land is aggressive, and what's rare is the, is, is where the, where are the places they'll let you do it that you can also sort of get people to.”
Kalanick: Uber Eats and DoorDash represent only 2% of US meals
“Uber Eats and DoorDash, they represent like 1.8% or two percent of all meals right now.”
Kalanick: Pre-Uber, NYC taxi drivers paid $40k yearly for half-time rentals
“When Uber rolled into New York the driver was getting a 12 hour shift seven days a week.
But there are 2:12 hour shifts.
Each of those drivers was paying 40,000 dollars a year to rent a car for half time.”
City Storage Systems Operates as a Food Conglomerate Across 30 Countries
“I was running a company called City Storage Systems. Okay, which was basically about the future of food, a conglomerate operating in about 30 countries”
Kalanick: Lab37's food assembly machine produces 300 bowls per hour
“That machine right there does 300 bowls an hour.”
Kalanick: Uber's first venture round had a $4M pre-money valuation
“Our first round at Uber was four million pre.”
Kalanick: Scour was sued for $250B by 33 major media companies
“This is a couple of companies before Uber. I did a peer to peer file sharing system, got sued for a quarter of a trillion dollars by 33 of the largest media companies in the world”
Kalanick: Uber private funding round cleared at $17B valuation
“It was 17, but you know, no one's counting.”
Selling Red Swoosh for $19M Remains Kalanick's Happiest Day
“And I sold it to Akamai for like,
I think it was like nineteen million bucks and probably to this day is still the happiest day of my life.”
Ex-Uber ATG Head Eric Meyhofer Runs Atoms Robotics Unit Lab 37
“My head of the advanced technology group at Uber is running my robotics division at Adams. It's called lab 37 in Pittsburgh. No, no, that's Eric, my offer.”