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12 Day War, Socialism Wins in NYC, Stocks All-Time High, AI Copyright, Science Corner
- ▶ 1:18:12 Jason Calacanis In fact, Uber hit a record high today, just two months after the big Trump tariff chaos and the market going down 15, 30%.
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate
- ▶ 1:00:52 Jason Calacanis Uber made two smaller acquisitions.
AI Doom vs Boom, EA Cult Returns, BBB Upside, US Steel and Golden Votes
- ▶ 5:04 Jason Calacanis There are millions of people who drive trucks and Ubers and Lyfts and DoorDashes.
- ▶ 8:57 Jason Calacanis Freeberg's already kind of given the big picture here, but let's step back to, for people who are listening, who have relatives who drive Uber or a truck or are graduating from college and want to go work at a, you know, I don't know, the…
- ▶ 29:41 David Friedberg So the flip side is like when Uber hit, those people were not drivers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:45 David Friedberg Think about the jobs that all those people had prior to Uber coming to market, and then the reason they drove for Uber is they could make more money driving for Uber, or now driving for Uber Eats, or DoorDash, and the flexibility, so their…
Trump's Big Week: Middle East Trip, China Deal, Pharma EO, "Big, Beautiful Bill" with Ben Shapiro
- ▶ 8:13 Jason Calacanis Bunch of high profile CEOs joined Trump, including friends of the show, Elon, and of course, Dara from Uber, Andy Jassy from Amazon.
- ▶ 1:20:33 Chamath Palihapitiya I mean, these are people- Okay, let's ban Uber to protect the cab drivers. 6 times in the scene
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet | The All-In Interview
- ▶ 44:14 Sundar Pichai Nobody could say just because you had smartphones and GPS and payments, something like Uber would get invented. 2 times in the scene
Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World
- ▶ 7:08 Jason Calacanis You can see there Phil Hellmuth haranguing poor Travis from Uber sitting next to me.
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down
- ▶ 3:02 Jason Calacanis All that matters to me is that Uber is the anti-tariff stock. 2 times in the scene
Inside the All-In Summit: Behind the Scenes of the World's Greatest Conference 🚀
- ▶ 13:36 Chamath Palihapitiya We've got Mark Benioff, and then we have a secret guest, Travis Kalanick is coming, founder of Uber, and now Cloud Kitchens. 4 times in the scene
Trump vs Harvard, Nvidia export controls, how DEI killed Hollywood with Tim Dillon
- ▶ 22:24 Tim Dillon Driving Uber, all these horrible degrading things we make people do.
- ▶ 1:06:19 Jason Calacanis The cashiers, the, the, the Uber drivers, door dashers, all these jobs could go away.
All-In Live from Austin: Colin and Samir, Chris Williamson, and Bryan Johnson
- ▶ 9:30 David Friedberg Uh, find another Uber.
- ▶ 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…
White House BTS, Google buys Wiz, Treasury vs Fed, Space Rescue
- ▶ 30:57 Jason Calacanis Cause I haven't said I'm like, that's where the gold is, is that non consensus bet when you and I did Uber was a room of 21 people, three people decided to invest. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:19 Jason Calacanis I mean, because we, you and I came up when, like, was a golden era of M&A, and then, you know, the IPO market started to open up with Airbnb, Coinbase, and of course, Uber.
Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO
- ▶ 1:26:04 Jason Calacanis So I was reading one of Dara's from Uber's tweets about autonomy.
Epstein Files Flop, State of the Market, Autonomous Robots, Trump's Gold Card, Friedberg on Jeopardy
- ▶ 57:08 Jason Calacanis Upward mobility could be so much better if a person who is an Uber driver or an HR person working, you know, at a company 4 times in the scene
JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant
- ▶ 6:04 Naval Ravikant Yeah, Twitter, Uber, Notion, a bunch of others, um, Postmates, Udemy, a lot of unicorns, a bunch of coming.
- ▶ 52:42 Naval Ravikant Uber came along and created all these driver jobs.
- ▶ 1:11:45 Naval Ravikant And that applies to how we ended with Uber as basically one taxi service, or we end up with.
- ▶ 1:20:42 Jason Calacanis You know, a couple of million of DoorDash Uber drivers losing their jobs to automation.
DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spend, US Sovereign Wealth Fund, GLP-1s
- ▶ 2:49 Antonio Gracias I was also in Uber with you too, by the way.
- ▶ 1:19:58 Jason Calacanis Chamath, your, your outlook on this issue since it seems to be coming up again specifically with truck drivers and Uber drivers and all kinds of other research jobs that seem to be, be doing pretty well, um, or can be done pretty well by…
DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks
- ▶ 1:14 Jason Calacanis He also, uh, worked in the cab business for a little bit, co-founder and former CEO of Uber. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:25 Travis Kalanick You do to the kitchen what Uber did to the car. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:12 Travis Kalanick And the machine will, if people order online, DoorDash, Uber Eats, et cetera, they'll order online the way they do. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:46 Jason Calacanis It's like YouTube being built on top of storage or Uber being built on top of GPS. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:31 Jason Calacanis And, you know, Travis, you've got some deep, you're one of probably five American entrepreneurs who ran an at scale business with Uber and the DD relationship in China. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:06 Travis Kalanick so, okay, so look, we, I had this thing, this is, I'm going back almost 10 years here, Uber day, we're running Uber China, and
- ▶ 54:25 Travis Kalanick It wouldn't exactly work that way here, but a lot of the innovation you will see coming out on Uber Eats or DoorDash
- ▶ 1:04:52 Travis Kalanick In the, in the Uber model, like the war was subsidizing rides for market share.
- ▶ 1:25:13 David Friedberg And do you think that's the future of transportation and how does Uber play into the, uh, self-driving car business now? 5 times in the scene
Trump's First Week: Inauguration Recap, Executive Actions, TikTok, Stargate + Sacks is Back!
- ▶ 9:21 Chamath Palihapitiya Travis Kalanick, the co-founder of, the founder of Uber. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:20 Jason Calacanis And since you bring up ride sharing and the 80% there, I, you know, I, I really think that's an important thing to, to take a moment to, um, to settle on because in that case, you didn't have Uber being challenged by Google, Microsoft and… 2 times in the scene
All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- ▶ 1:08:24 Jason Calacanis I went to the UberX party. 3 times in the scene
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
LA's Wildfire Disaster, Zuck Flips on Free Speech, Why Trump Wants Greenland
- ▶ 5:23 Cyan Banister And Uber, I all discovered through you. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:38 Cyan Banister Um, so if they enter the robo taxi market, I actually think they should buy Uber. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:33:06 Jason Calacanis Well, when we were picking, famously, Uber, you had to pick between Sidecar, Lyft, and Uber. 2 times in the scene
2025 Predictions: Tech, Business, Media, Politics!
- ▶ 21:33 Gavin Baker It's, it's gonna cross into mainstream adoption where I already notice, particularly if I'm taking an Uber late at night, I really, really prefer to have a Tesla. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:40 Jason Calacanis Some partnerships that will happen between Amazon, DoorDash, Uber, Tesla, Waymo, and that cohort, and I would not be surprised to see Tesla could buy Uber right now for but 10% of its market cap, and Waymo could spin out and partner with… 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:46 Jason Calacanis I went with the on-demand economy with Uber, Airbnb, and DoorDash. 2 times in the scene
The All-In Holiday Spectacular
- ▶ 7:31 Chamath Palihapitiya I can't believe I get to sit down with one of the most famous investors in Uber.
- ▶ 16:09 Jason Calacanis I was in an Uber. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:38 Aaron Levie David works in the government, which means we have an inside track for some of the, uh, the besties, um, which I think it'll be pretty helpful for various positions in the, in the cabinet, um, and I know there's already a pick for this…
- ▶ 56:05 Alexandra Botez Cal gets pegged by the VC industrial complex, and each time he whimpers, Uber, as his safe word.
DOGE kills its first bill, Zuck vs OpenAI, Google's AI comeback
- ▶ 52:16 Jason Calacanis Uber Eats and Postmates?
Trump's Cabinet, Google's Quantum Chip, Apple's Flop, TikTok, State of VC
- ▶ 23:57 Jason Calacanis They're gonna look at Uber and say, that'll never work.
Trump's market impact: Bitcoin, M&A, IPOs + transition picks; Polymarket CEO raided by FBI
- ▶ 12:26 Jason Calacanis Uber, Reddit, DoorDash, and Instacart. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:09 Jason Calacanis If Amazon can't buy it, and Tesla can't buy it, and Amazon can't buy it, but they could merge with Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, you know, all those mid Airbnb, if those companies could consolidate, can you imagine what would happen if Amazon
Inflated GDP?, Google earnings, How the media lost trust, Rogan/Trump search controversy, Election!
- ▶ 1:07:47 Jason Calacanis Except for Uber. 2 times in the scene
Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks
- ▶ 21:02 Jason Calacanis Three or four years ago, Uber, Airbnb, Google, and Facebook had more employees or the same number of employees they have now while growing.
- ▶ 37:01 Chamath Palihapitiya And let's just say he drove an Uber and he made enough money where when things got hard and he didn't get enough playing time, he opted out.
Dueling Presidential interviews, SpaceX’s big catch, Robotaxis, Uber buying Expedia?, Nuclear NIMBY
- ▶ 27:49 Jason Calacanis Financial Times reported that advisors were trying to look at if a deal structure would be possible between Uber and Expedia. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:19 Jason Calacanis You know, Uber's two biggest businesses rides in Uber Eats, but they also do freight and train bookings.
- ▶ 35:33 David Friedberg So they're spending about, um, eight billion a year run rate on sales and marketing at Expedia right now, and Uber's got a hundred fifty million active installed users that are using this, the Uber services every month, so the idea would… 30 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:05 Jason Calacanis Well, no, but they already have a Hotels.com partnership, and then the Uber One membership's been growing pretty nicely, and the advertising's doing a billion dollars a year, and that is just a money printing machine because you know that…
- ▶ 39:05 Jason Calacanis Well, no, but they already have a Hotels.com partnership, and then the Uber One membership's been growing pretty nicely, and the advertising's doing a billion dollars a year, and that is just a money printing machine because you know that…
- ▶ 39:35 David Friedberg What about Uber Eats, Zach? 6 times in the scene
Hurricane fallout, AlphaFold, Google breakup, Trump surge, VC giveback, TikTok survey
- ▶ 24:25 Jason Calacanis If you look at the cost of insurance, if a hundred different people bundled the cost of their homes together, put money into some sort of platform, like an Uber, Airbnb marketplace, and there was some management structure here of…
- ▶ 1:00:20 Jason Calacanis Uber, Coinbase, Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
Flying Cars Have Arrived! eVTOL Panel: Archer, Joby, Wisk | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 11:34 Adam Goldstein It's not like an Uber, right? 3 times in the scene
OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war
- ▶ 40:07 Jason Calacanis If you look at Google, Uber, Airbnb, and Facebook Meta,
- ▶ 59:21 Jason Calacanis I mean, what is the point of taking out your phone and watching the Uber come to you?
- ▶ 1:06:15 Chamath Palihapitiya It will go and look at Lyft and Uber and whatever, it'll provision the car, and then it'll just tell you when it's coming.
Thomas Laffont | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 30:06 Jason Calacanis Um, but we also have to create jobs, and we have to create the next companies, and I, I encourage people who may be, who are anti-tech, who are anti-capitalism, to imagine a world in which we didn't have Google, Apple, Tesla, Facebook,…
Tekedra Mawakana | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 12:38 Tekedra Mawakana We have a partnership with Uber in Phoenix.
- ▶ 12:42 Tekedra Mawakana oh my gosh, I got my Uber Eats in a Waymo.
- ▶ 13:34 David Sacks I, I have a friend who's the third or fourth investor in Uber. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:14 Jason Calacanis If the mission is to reduce those deaths and to really scale this technology, Uber's doing a quarter billion rides a week.
- ▶ 22:50 Chamath Palihapitiya A friend of mine, um, who couldn't make it here, um, is an angel investor in Uber. 2 times in the scene
Travis Kalanick | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 0:08 Travis Kalanick If you missed it, Travis Kalanick planning to leave the board at Uber. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:53 Travis Kalanick I can't believe, I can't believe I get to sit down with one of the most famous investors in Uber. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:30 Jason Calacanis You have, since you left Uber, been working extremely hard and quietly on Cloud Kitchens. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:14 Travis Kalanick And so, um, of course, in my last, in my last gig, we did Uber Eats.
- ▶ 5:31 Jason Calacanis So the premise of Uber was, hey, press a button. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:42 Travis Kalanick You know, there's interesting, you know, so, so it just becomes a more efficient thing, so that if you want to do to the kitchen what Uber did to the car, you have to make sure two things happen. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:35 Jason Calacanis This is something you worked on really hard at Uber, hiring Josh in New York, Will in LA. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:37 Jason Calacanis And a couple of those conversations, I remember calling you in a panic after having taken a Lyft, a rideshare, and we were only Uber Black.
- ▶ 18:32 Travis Kalanick And so I'm like, dude, we're, we got, like, 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.
- ▶ 20:49 Jason Calacanis You know, um, the brilliance of the, of the Uber marketplace was in many ways 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:01 Jason Calacanis And as a former journalist, you know, it was kind of eye-opening to me to be on the other side of the table and watching this happen because we knew full well, based on driver data, that they loved their jobs at Uber because they had free… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:30 Jason Calacanis Uh, and it was brutal and it was particularly hard on you because you put your soul into this company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:26 Jason Calacanis You know, I never talk about Uber. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:17 Travis Kalanick They went from my seventy-five million a week to profitable. 5 times in the scene
"Founder Mode," DOJ alleges Russian podcast op, Kamala flips proposals, Tech loses Section 230?
- ▶ 25:03 David Friedberg Well, building a unique business, and I think if you look at Airbnb, and I'll give Brian Chesky incredible credit for this, you look at Uber, you look at how Steve Jobs built Apple, what every one of these businesses have in common is that… 3 times in the scene
Break up Google, Starbucks CEO out, Kamala’s price controls, Boeing disaster, Kursk offensive
- ▶ 18:08 Jason Calacanis That's Uber, Instacart, DoorDash, et cetera.
- ▶ 26:47 Jason Calacanis There have been so much money, Tesla, Uber,
- ▶ 40:53 Jason Calacanis And so this competition for entry rung employees forced Starbucks, and I know this from the Uber experience and then DoorDash, 3 times in the scene
Yen Carry Trade, Recession odds grow, Buffett cash pile, Google ruled monopoly, Kamala picks Walz
- ▶ 33:10 Jason Calacanis Higher end services that have a bigger price tag like Uber and some of the high end retailers are showing actual growth and they're saying the consumer shrunk.
- ▶ 57:59 Jason Calacanis My prediction is Apple buys a search engine and they go it alone and expand their advertising network like Amazon, Uber, and other companies have.
Mag 7 sell-off, Wiz rejects Google, UBI, Kamala in, China's nuclear buildout, Sacks responds to PG
- ▶ 14:35 Jason Calacanis CrowdStrike's CEO has been a clown for his apology and explanation, and the good news though is they sent everybody an Uber Eats gift card, so I'm super happy about that.
- ▶ 1:19:18 Jason Calacanis Like some people say Uber did.
Trump assassination attempt, Secret Service failure, Inside the RNC, VC liquidity problem
- ▶ 1:01:06 Jason Calacanis It actually happened with Uber to a certain extent. 3 times in the scene
Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more
- ▶ 41:59 Jason Calacanis I, I honestly, my theory on this is the, because there's not three competing offer sacks from big tech, when you're a startup, you know, trying to land somebody and you're like, we have to beat Uber or Airbnb or Coinbase, you know, like a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:40 Chamath Palihapitiya When people saw Uber's success, they thought, well, this is simple. 2 times in the scene