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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Travis Kalanick comes up
GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal
- ▶ 9:31 Jason Calacanis You want to give Travis something similar?
Mark Cuban on the AI Bubble: Who Actually Gets Wiped Out?
- ▶ 33:36 Jason Calacanis You got Travis Sacks, myself, Elon, just a bunch of folks have all of a sudden just shown up. 2 times in the scene
Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters
- ▶ 41:26 Jason Calacanis Travis and the team said, leave the building.
Exiled Iranian Prince Reza Pahlavi: Transition Plan and the Fight for Iran's Freedom
- ▶ 43:20 Shervin Pishevar That was one of the things that my first meeting with Jason, with, uh, with Travis, I told him that story and I, and I, I know that like growing up in an orange and black taxi cab in, in, in Washington DC helped me win the Uber deal…
War with Iran + Pentagon vs Anthropic with Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
- ▶ 0:24 Jason Calacanis He was Travis's right-hand man.
The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026
- ▶ 1:25:12 Jason Calacanis Oh, right, I remember when Travis did that, yes.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on self-driving's future, changing business model, job displacement
- ▶ 16:26 Jason Calacanis I would talk to TK about it, and, and, and William, and all the, Josh in New York, and they're like, yeah, we could flip it at any moment in time to two dollars more a ride, we would lose no rides, and it would be wildly profitable, and in… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:06 unnamed speaker When Travis was on the pod, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:36 Jason Calacanis I was talking to Will Barnes, who ran, um, originally in Los Angeles, and then half of the country for, for Travis, and, uh, Will Barnes had a pretty amazing insight, which was, in the early days we had humans protesting
Inside the White House Tech Dinner, Weak Jobs Report, Tariffs Court Challenge, Google Wins Antitrust
- ▶ 1:05:56 Jason Calacanis My guy TK and I, we might be doing a little backgammon, uh, tournament.
Why Are So Many Companies Going Bankrupt In 2025? - David Friedberg
- ▶ 4:57 Chamath Palihapitiya I just want to point to this because I think this is another wave of competition that's going to put a bunch of categories of business under duress, which is, you know, our friend Travis Kalanick, who's the founder of- Cloud Kitchens. 3 times in the scene
Trump Takes On the Fed, US-Intel Deal, Why Bankruptcies Are Up, OpenAI's Longevity Breakthrough
- ▶ 1:03:34 Chamath Palihapitiya Where he talked about the Chipotle competitor that TK launched. 2 times in the scene
Every Investor Needs To Understand This Concept - David Friedberg
- ▶ 7:34 Jason Calacanis And Chamath's point is really important, because you do get so much intelligence, and what I learned, having been an investor in Uber and Robinhood, when they were 5,000,020 million dollar companies, I was the first investor into those…
AI Psychosis, America's Broken Social Fabric, Trump Takes Over DC Police, Is VC Broken?
- ▶ 6:19 Jason Calacanis You may have, um, even witnessed a little bit of this when, uh, Travis was on the program a couple of weeks ago, and he said he was, like, spending his time on the fringes or the edges of 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:46 Jason Calacanis And Chamath's point is really important, because you do get so much intelligence, and what I learned, having been an investor in Uber and Robinhood, when they were 5,000,020 million dollar companies, I was like, first investor into those…
Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World
- ▶ 7:07 Jason Calacanis Travis joined us. 3 times in the scene
All-In Live from Austin: Colin and Samir, Chris Williamson, and Bryan Johnson
- ▶ 33:25 Jason Calacanis And they were like, hey, you know, we think you might have some, like, Howard Stern potential, and what if you got Travis from Uber, he was very hot at the time, um, and a couple of guys to come on and, and do, like, a, you know, round…
Trump's First Week: Inauguration Recap, Executive Actions, TikTok, Stargate + Sacks is Back!
- ▶ 9:18 Chamath Palihapitiya With Pinker, TK. 2 times in the scene
All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- ▶ 54:08 Mark Pincus The, the hard thing, and, and I was, it was great reconnecting with Travis.
Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
- ▶ 42:47 Jason Calacanis This immediately triggered, uh, the debate and dare I say courage that Travis had around this issue with surge pricing for Uber, Lyft, 2 times in the scene
Thomas Laffont | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 1:08 Thomas Laffont Then they said, by the way, we are gonna put Mark Benioff, the goat of enterprise software, right before you, the return of TK, and some guy who figured out how to fix aging.
- ▶ 14:17 Thomas Laffont We just had Travis on from Uber, but whether it's DoorDash or Instacart or Block, you can see that even great new companies like those are available at pretty reasonable multiples.
GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
- ▶ 1:14:12 Jason Calacanis And so, you know, that happened with TK, Uber, and then Cloud Kitchens.
E168: Can Google save itself? Abolish HR, AI takes over Customer Support, Reddit IPO teardown
- ▶ 23:50 David Friedberg I mean, think about Travis building Uber and the lawyer will say it is illegal. 2 times in the scene
E167: Google's Woke AI disaster, Nvidia smashes earnings (again), Groq's LPU breakthrough & more
- ▶ 44:14 Jason Calacanis I'll preemptively do it, but you gotta tell Travis to stop running Uber as a consumer app. 2 times in the scene
E164: Zuck’s Senate apology, Elon's comp package voided, crony capitalism, Reddit IPO, drone attack
- ▶ 2:40 Jason Calacanis I was invited by TK to come to the, the ring of the bell. 7 times in the scene
E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more
- ▶ 59:08 Chamath Palihapitiya I haven't done the work, but I'm just saying, it seems like, it seems like he's a great, uh, Travis. 2 times in the scene
E140: LK-99, Sclerotic establishments, Fitch downgrades US debt, Trump indicted... again
- ▶ 39:55 Jason Calacanis And if you look at Travis with Uber, he did scour got, got, you know, sued for a quarter trillion dollars. 2 times in the scene
E81: All-In Summit: Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner on markets, downturns & investment cycles
- ▶ 34:34 Bill Gurley Yeah, and, and equally on the other side, I think that Travis, and you know him well, is, is way more nuanced.
E80: Recession deep dive: VC psychology, macro risks, Tiger Global, predictions and more
- ▶ 1:27:30 Jason Calacanis But you know, Travis called me once or twice on a Saturday and said, Hey, we're struggling with x. 3 times in the scene
E68: Trudeau invokes emergency powers, Bitcoin vs. government, Tiger Global's new strategy and more
- ▶ 1:10:35 Jason Calacanis So, I mean, again, and then if you look at the great founders, TK used to come to me, uh, and say, Hey, you know, this is the thing I'm going to be doing at the next board meeting, or here's the thing.
E47: Facebook's week from hell, Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes coverage, Newsom wins & more
- ▶ 1:07:54 Jason Calacanis She uses Travis Kalanick and Adam Neumann as examples of men who have engaged in questionable unethical, even dangerous behavior in tech without much legal penalty.
E43: Innovative venture strategies, Zymergen's implosion, Square acquires Afterpay & more
- ▶ 6:13 Jason Calacanis Hey, I heard that Travis at Uber was this or whatever.
E30: Ramifications of Biden's proposed capital gains tax hike, founder psychology & more
- ▶ 55:55 David Sacks I mean, TK was a super aggressive personality. 2 times in the scene