Uber, every mention
32 scenes (2021), the whole family · ← back to Uber
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every year 2021 anyone Jason Calacanis 343David Friedberg 85Chamath Palihapitiya 63David Sacks 50Travis Kalanick 38Cyan Banister 12Dara Khosrowshahi 11Brad Gerstner 8Gavin Baker 7Bill Gurley 7
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Uber comes up
E61: 2022 Predictions! Business, politics, science, tech, crypto, & more
- ▶ 1:03:15 Jason Calacanis You know, earlier, and that's what's creating these great big outcomes, whether it's Uber or Facebook, both.
E56: Constitution DAO, Rittenhouse trial coverage, private sector efficiency vs the government
- ▶ 7:33 Jason Calacanis These DAOs are pushing the envelope in the same way Airbnb and Uber did in terms of, you know, bending the rules about ride sharing or renting your extra room.
- ▶ 26:35 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, you made a great point about Uber and Lyft pushing the boundaries and forcing the regulators to react. 2 times in the scene
E54: Spread trading big tech, capital allocation, Zillow's misfire, Progressives suffer losses
- ▶ 18:50 Jason Calacanis We were expecting, you know, uh, Airbnb, Ubers and Lyfts to over 10 years to go public. 2 times in the scene
E52: Trump's SPAC, peak venture liquidity, tech as an economic ladder, Dems overplaying their hand
- ▶ 55:21 Jason Calacanis If, you know, the amount of exits, the amount, the scale of these companies, the coin bases, the Robin Hoods, the Ubers, the Slacks, I mean, these are giant companies making huge international impacts.
E49: Coinbase CEO reflects on controversial blog, state of the markets, 1000 unicorns & more
- ▶ 28:34 Jason Calacanis And I talked anecdotally with an Uber driver said he's making like, 70 bucks an hour during peak hours. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:17 David Friedberg Uber is, you know, a transportation company without vehicles.
- ▶ 1:02:49 Jason Calacanis I think it's better that everybody be allowed to be an accredited investor and do what Peter did, which is everybody should be able to take their for one K or their Roth and be able to buy the next LinkedIn Uber. 3 times in the scene
E46: False Ivermectin narratives, regulatory grift, wartime mentality in solving issues & more
- ▶ 43:35 Jason Calacanis Uber, Airbnb.
E45: Theranos & VC fraud risks, China bans video games, Texas SB8, Apple app store, CA fires, Rogan
- ▶ 42:37 David Sacks So it could be an Uber driver.
E44: USA's Afghanistan embarrassment, China's new algo laws, future of robots + Italy recap!
- ▶ 1:03:42 David Friedberg 22, which was a heavily lobbied California proposition lobbied by Uber and Lyft and other, um, businesses that have built effectively marketplaces for independent contractors like drivers and delivery people and so on. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:32:21 Jason Calacanis People can't be freelance writers or driving Uber for two hours a day in California.
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.
E42: China's tech crackdown, CRISPR breakthrough, practical climate change solutions & more
- ▶ 18:12 Jason Calacanis SoftBank is clearing a bunch of its Uber position to cover their losses in DD.
- ▶ 1:14:38 Jason Calacanis Uber, calm, and then this one.
E41: Vaccine policy, Big Tech, DeepMind's latest breakthrough, wealth creation, opportunity & more
- ▶ 15:48 Chamath Palihapitiya Or drive your car, use a bicycle, or take an Uber?
E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
- ▶ 30:55 Jason Calacanis Also, uh, companies are going public earlier, so this is going to become a bigger issue because it's an easy decision in year 11 if you were an Uber investor or an Airbnb investor to say, okay, it's been 11 years, we're going to give you…
E36: New FTC Chair, breaking up big tech, government silent spying, Jon Stewart, wildfires & more
- ▶ 19:03 David Friedberg I mean, this is obviously the basis of Uber and others.
E32: Behind the scenes of Elon hosting SNL, CDC failures, America's real-time UBI experiment & more
- ▶ 44:05 Chamath Palihapitiya Dara Korshashawi, the CEO of Uber said on the Uber earnings call last week that the, um, average hourly rate that some drivers in New York, Uber drivers in New York were getting paid was 38 bucks an hour. 3 times in the scene
E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
- ▶ 34:49 Jason Calacanis But do you guys wonder if this generation, which is not going back to work, we have a shortage of Uber drivers, we have a shortage of bartenders, waiters, nobody was a lot of people are just choosing not to go to work because they have…
E30: Ramifications of Biden's proposed capital gains tax hike, founder psychology & more
- ▶ 55:53 David Sacks I mean, we saw this with, with Uber, right? 2 times in the scene
E29: Coinbase goes public, direct listings vs. IPOs, unions & more with Bestie Guestie Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 24:20 Jason Calacanis And with Uber and started buying out people's positions. 4 times in the scene
E28: Current state of public & private markets, Archegos debacle, US debt issues, wealth tax & more
- ▶ 15:46 Jason Calacanis Yeah, but what if there's a new category that comes out like on demand and something like Uber comes along or Airbnb, and it doesn't fit the framework?
E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more
- ▶ 2:05 Jason Calacanis Rain Man, you ran away with that one with 39%, The Dictator with 34, Queen of Kinoa coming in at 17, and Uber's their fourth investor came in with the measly eight percent.
E26: State of Venture Capital, plus fan questions on longevity, decentralization & quantum computing
- ▶ 1:08:22 Jason Calacanis Or Uber decided, fuck it, we're gonna let our drivers buy shares through this.
E24: Markets trend down, political pandemic manipulation, stimulus breakdown, biological Patriot Act
- ▶ 30:17 Jason Calacanis Uber drivers, BART train conductors.
E21: Media misalignment, subjects controlling narratives & more with bestie guestie Draymond Green
- ▶ 23:53 Jason Calacanis And the only time they write about Tesla is when Elon trips or, you know, something, somebody dies in a car or they write about Uber because of some tragedy.
E19: Robinhood's GameStop decision: Why did it happen and how can it be prevented in the future?
- ▶ 17:10 Jason Calacanis Now, there are unintended consequences of any company at scale, whether it's Uber, Robin Hood, Tesla, etc. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:37 Jason Calacanis It reminds me of surge pricing with Uber during snowstorms.
- ▶ 45:53 Chamath Palihapitiya The thing is, like what, in all of these other situations, like in the Uber fiasco, you know, you can't claim much damage, right?
- ▶ 59:20 Chamath Palihapitiya It's not that it's not like missing, you know, um, uh, it's, it's, it's not like, you know, surge pricing in Uber.
E18: Inauguration talk, breaking down the $1.9T stimulus, the case for recalling Gavin Newsom & more
- ▶ 1:00:53 Jason Calacanis Every single Uber driver, Lyft driver, Postmates driver, Airbnb host, uh, or a person who used the Cash App or PayPal would have said, I can, as one of the first users, I have access to buy shares.