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Travis Kalanick

26 statements across 10 episodes · 5 bullish · 5 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Apr 23, 2021 by David Sacks · said 61 times in 30 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

On the record as a speaker too: Travis Kalanick's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.

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brought up most by Jason Calacanis (39), Chamath Palihapitiya (9), Thomas Laffont (2), David Sacks (2), David Friedberg (2), Shervin Pishevar (1), Mark Pincus (1), Bill Gurley (1)

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2022 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
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Everything said about Travis Kalanick, oldest first

Apr 23, 2021 positive
What-if
Sacks argues Uber would not have succeeded without Travis Kalanick's aggressiveness
“TK was a super aggressive personality. The company would not have been as successful.”
David Sacks Apr 23, 2021 ▶ 55:55 E30: Ramifications of Biden's proposed capital gains tax hike, founder psychology & more
Feb 2, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Calacanis: Kalanick was banned from stage at Uber IPO bell ringing
“He was disinvited. So he was there on the floor. It was very awkward. And then they didn't have him go up and ring the bell or be even there when Dara rang the bell. It was because it was so controversial. They didn't, they banned him.”
Jason Calacanis Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 2:47 E164: Zuck’s Senate apology, Elon's comp package voided, crony capitalism, Reddit IPO, drone attack
Sep 12, 2024 bullish
Disclosure
Kalanick: CloudKitchens is building 'atoms-based computers' starting with food
“Our company is really sort of building atoms-based computers and sort of Our first computer is really a food computer”
Travis Kalanick Sep 12, 2024 ▶ 8:07 Travis Kalanick | All-In Summit 2024
Sep 12, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kalanick: Major Uber Investor Ran 6-Month PR Opposition Campaign Against Him
“If an investor is running a political oppo campaign against you for six months, sort of generating a crisis every week for six months straight, it's going to wear you down.”
Travis Kalanick Sep 12, 2024 ▶ 34:38 Travis Kalanick | All-In Summit 2024
Sep 12, 2024
Assertion Contradicted
Kalanick: Average Uber driver worked eight hours weekly during his tenure
“And let's be clear, the average Uber driver during my, you know, let's say at the end of my tenure was eight hours a week.”
Travis Kalanick Sep 12, 2024 ▶ 24:17 Travis Kalanick | All-In Summit 2024
Sep 12, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
San Francisco Threatened Kalanick With 90 Days in Jail Per Uber Ride
“I got threatened by the city of San Francisco and the state of California three months after we launched Uber with 90 days in jail for every ride that had occurred.”
Travis Kalanick Sep 12, 2024 ▶ 18:32 Travis Kalanick | All-In Summit 2024
Sep 12, 2024
Disclosure
Uber Gave Cities 30 Days To Enforce Lyft Regulations Before Launching
“Each and every city we went to, we would send, we would wait for Lyft to launch. And then we would basically say to the city, we'd send them a letter saying, there's this really cool thing called ride sharing. This company called Lyft is doing it. We think it'…”
Travis Kalanick Sep 12, 2024 ▶ 19:44 Travis Kalanick | All-In Summit 2024
Sep 12, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Travis Kalanick joined pricing calls for Uber's first 30 cities
“The first 30 cities, I was on that pricing call.”
Travis Kalanick Sep 12, 2024 ▶ 15:24 Travis Kalanick | All-In Summit 2024
Sep 12, 2024
Insight
Travis Kalanick: Companies break when problem creation outpaces problem solving
“As long as the problems you're solving are greater than the problems you're creating, then you're fine. When the problems you're creating are, starts to, when the derivative of problems you're creating is greater than the derivative of the problems you're solv…”
Travis Kalanick Sep 12, 2024 ▶ 28:20 Travis Kalanick | All-In Summit 2024
Jan 31, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Travis Kalanick reveals he rejected Masa Son's money for funding competitors
“I did not take money from Masa. So he begged me to take money for years, and we did not take it because he is a, he's a, what's the word I'm looking for? He's a promiscuous investor. So once he invests in you should probably count on him and using your informa…”
Travis Kalanick Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 1:02:36 DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks
Jan 31, 2025
Disclosure
Travis Kalanick confirms this is his first podcast appearance ever
“This is my first time on a podcast ever.”
Travis Kalanick Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 1:48:05 DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks
Apr 24, 2025
Assertion Partly supported
Chamath: Travis Kalanick has not spoken at a conference or to press in nearly a decade
“He has spoken at a conference or to the press in a closer decade, so it's kind of a big deal.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 13:43 Inside the All-In Summit: Behind the Scenes of the World's Greatest Conference 🚀
Apr 24, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chamath: Uber would become a trillion-dollar company if Travis Kalanick returned as CEO
“If you came back, it would be a trillion dollar company with you back in that seat.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 14:24 Inside the All-In Summit: Behind the Scenes of the World's Greatest Conference 🚀
Jul 11, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Kalanick denies Pony AI deal but admits inbound autonomous vehicle interest
“There's no real deal right now, but there is definitely some inbound.”
Travis Kalanick Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 6:00 Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs
Jul 11, 2025
Disclosure
Travis Kalanick acquires backgammon engine Extreme Gammon
“I recently purchased the preeminent backgammon engine. XG.”
Travis Kalanick Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 1:25:12 Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs
Jul 11, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kalanick: Lab37 robotic assembly cuts kitchen labor costs to 7-10% of revenue
“When they're running our machine, it's between seven and 10% of revenue.”
Travis Kalanick Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 9:00 Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs
Sep 17, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Uber collaborates with ousted founder Travis Kalanick's CloudKitchens business
“So we're, we actually work with Travis and his cloud kitchens business.”
Dara Khosrowshahi Sep 17, 2025 ▶ 19:19 Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on self-driving's future, changing business model, job displacement
Mar 17, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Kalanick: New venture focuses on specialized food robotics, not humanoids
“Look, I'm in the non-humanoid space. I mean, but mechanical engineers have been dealing with actuators and, you know, all the sort of electro-mechanical sort of interactions that make Machines do certain things, but like, I'm in the food machine space, so I ca…”
Travis Kalanick Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 27:08 Two Legendary Founders: Travis Kalanick & Michael Dell Live from Austin, Texas
Mar 17, 2026
Insight
Kalanick: Physical automation treats manufacturing, real estate, and logistics as computing resources
“CPU manipulates bits. What manipulates atoms? Manufacturing. Storage stores bits. What stores atoms? Real estate. Network moves bits from point A to point B. What moves atoms? That's transportation or logistics. So you have these three core computing resources…”
Travis Kalanick Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 3:57 Two Legendary Founders: Travis Kalanick & Michael Dell Live from Austin, Texas
Mar 17, 2026
Disclosure
Kalanick: Adams is inches from closing an acquisition of Pronto
“And we acquired a company on the mining stuff, a company called Pronto. Or it's about to close. It's where we're inches from closing is the way to put it.”
Travis Kalanick Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 7:20 Two Legendary Founders: Travis Kalanick & Michael Dell Live from Austin, Texas
Mar 17, 2026
Insight
Kalanick: In capital-intensive markets, fundraising is a core competency
“In the Uber world early days, if you didn't have capital, it didn't matter how good your app was, because Masa is going to put a billion dollars into your competitor, and you're going to lose 20% market share tomorrow. So a critical competency, in fact, your w…”
Travis Kalanick Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 29:50 Two Legendary Founders: Travis Kalanick & Michael Dell Live from Austin, Texas
Mar 17, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Kalanick: Middle East business IPO delayed by 20% Saudi market drop
“Our Middle East business was supposed to go public in January, and the Saudi market Was went down 20% over like a two month period.”
Travis Kalanick Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 30:35 Two Legendary Founders: Travis Kalanick & Michael Dell Live from Austin, Texas
Mar 17, 2026
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Kalanick: CloudKitchens was the largest built-kitchen provider in China
“For a long time, we're the largest built kitchen builders in China.”
Travis Kalanick Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 34:22 Two Legendary Founders: Travis Kalanick & Michael Dell Live from Austin, Texas
Mar 17, 2026
Assertion Contradicted
Kalanick: 13% of San Francisco vehicle miles were Uber when he departed
“When I left Uber, 13% of all San Francisco miles were Uber miles.”
Travis Kalanick Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 5:07 Two Legendary Founders: Travis Kalanick & Michael Dell Live from Austin, Texas
Apr 17, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Kalanick uses AI agents to autonomously bet on Kalshi and Polymarket
“I've got a side quest where I'm just investing. I have agents investing and betting on Kalshi and Polly and, you know, these other places. And it's silly how dumb the agents are, even their best agents, to be honest.”
Travis Kalanick Apr 17, 2026 ▶ 1:25:38 OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out
Jun 27, 2026
Insight
Kalanick: Distributed AI training fails over distances as short as two kilometers
“Honestly, guys, even if it's on your own fiber connected, like, two kilometers away, you're screwed. It's not a thing.”
Travis Kalanick Jun 27, 2026 ▶ 1:22:40 Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter
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