Uber, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Uber comes up
E159: The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023
- ▶ 26:12 Jason Calacanis I am going to talk my own book on this one and give it to Dara and the team at Uber. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:47 David Friedberg I give it to Dara and Uber. 2 times in the scene
E158: Global trade disrupted, Adobe/Figma canceled, realtors sued, Trump blocked
- ▶ 40:15 Jason Calacanis And we've seen all the companies that went public, whether it's Airbnb or Uber are now focused on ringing the cash register and being profitable.
E157: Epic legal win, OpenAI's news deal, FCC targets Elon, the limits of free speech & more
- ▶ 1:34:26 Chamath Palihapitiya So Uber's at 70.
E156: Ivy League antisemitism, macro, SaaS recovery, Gemini, Figma deal delay + big Friedberg update
- ▶ 32:01 Jason Calacanis Uber drivers are now making 34, 36 dollars.
- ▶ 59:58 Jason Calacanis Counter prevailing forces here is what we saw with Spotify just laying off 1700 people, Google laying off 20,000, Facebook laying off, I think, 25 or 30,000, Microsoft, Uber. 2 times in the scene
E152: Real estate chaos, WeWork bankruptcy, Biden regulates AI, Ukraine's “Cronkite Moment” & more
- ▶ 1:27:28 Chamath Palihapitiya He gets in an Uber.
E151: WW3 risk, War with Iran?, 4.9% GDP, startup failures growing, new Speaker & more
- ▶ 50:45 Jason Calacanis I'll tell you something that's starting to happen as well, Chamath, is that the public markets are looking at their stocks if they're undervalued, and then Dara at Uber is reportedly planning, like, buying back upwards of 20% of the Uber… 4 times in the scene
All-In Summit: Alexandra Botez takes on the Besties in a 1v4 simultaneous chess match
- ▶ 23:41 Alexandra Botez Yeah, he mentioned he invested in Uber, like, six times when we played poker. 2 times in the scene
E147: TED goes woke, Canada's Nazi blunder, AI adds vision, plus: who owns OpenAI?
- ▶ 1:20:23 David Sacks But imagine if the phone perfectly understood what you were saying, then you would just say, call me an Uber, order me food, whatever.
All-In Summit: In conversation with Vinod Khosla
- ▶ 22:21 Vinod Khosla Did, uh, would somebody at Avis do Uber?
E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more
- ▶ 51:17 Jason Calacanis You can think of them like DoorDash or Uber drivers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:57 Jason Calacanis Uh, this was Emil Michael, a shout out at Uber and Travis did this with all of the grabs, DDs, et cetera.
E142: "Rich Men North of Richmond" hits #1, upward mobility, real estate capital crunch, Trump RICO
- ▶ 1:26:17 Chamath Palihapitiya That is a race to the bottom, and it is a surplus business that benefits the buyer, i.e. the Ubers, the McDonald's, the door dashes of the world, not the seller, i.e. the Adyen's, the PayPal's, the Stripe's. 3 times in the scene
E141: State of Series A's, VC dry powder, IPO window opens + more with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 23:50 Jason Calacanis I mean, the series A's back in the, you know, Uber days and Airbnb days were what, five, ten million bucks on a thirty million.
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
E137: Inflation cools, market rips, Ripple/MSFT beat regulators, NATO summit, cocktails of youth
- ▶ 9:16 Jason Calacanis Yeah, and it was when the the moment I saw Zuckerberg and Airbnb, Uber, other places just start and obviously Google and Microsoft start making cuts, you're like, okay, people are going to lower their costs.
E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
- ▶ 1:05:28 Jason Calacanis The fact is, at the same time that the New York Times, CNN, were attacking what Uber was doing, the New York Times won a fucking Pulitzer for their coverage of predatory loans by rich, powerful people in New York City.
E133: Market melt-up, IPO update, AI startups overheat, Reddit revolts & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 54:07 Jason Calacanis Uber's up 67% this year.
- ▶ 1:23:08 Brad Gerstner I think there are people who raised a lot of money over the life cycle, like an Uber. 2 times in the scene
E132: SEC goes after crypto giants, Sequoia splits, LIV/PGA, Messi's deal + LIVE Q&A!
- ▶ 12:11 Jason Calacanis And if you, people keep bringing up, oh, you're an investor at Uber, they broke the rules, they bent the rules. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:28 Jason Calacanis Two or three people who don't have job offers from Uber and Airbnb and Google and Facebook just saying, fuck it.
E130: DeSantis's Twitter Spaces, debt ceiling, Nvidia rips, state of VC, startup failure & more
- ▶ 54:14 Jason Calacanis And I think what we have to accept is that the reason this country gets bailed out is because we have tremendous entrepreneurs, an amazing capital allocation system, a very fluid market for building corporate corporations and capitalism is…
- ▶ 1:30:21 Jason Calacanis I, I saw weblogs, 18 months after starting it, I, you know, had the Silicon I report, I just, Uber investment, everything I touched went to the moon.
E120: Banking crisis and the great VC reset
- ▶ 1:18:18 Jason Calacanis And then Saks, I would like to understand how many emails and what you ordered from Uber Eats during that segment.
- ▶ 1:28:34 Jason Calacanis Uber, Uber, Uber, Uber. 2 times in the scene
E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 30:46 Jason Calacanis They turned advertising on the app, just like Uber and Amazon.
E117: Did Stripe miss its window? Plus: VC market update, AI comes for SaaS, Trump's savvy move
- ▶ 1:20 Jason Calacanis If you remember, uh, for folks listening, Airbnb, Uber famously took over 10 years to go public.
- ▶ 35:21 Jason Calacanis Google, Apple, Uber, whatever.
E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
- ▶ 1:10:42 Chamath Palihapitiya An Uber, a DoorDash, or whomever says, yes, I need payments capability.
E114: Markets update: whipsaw macro picture, big tech, startup mass extinction event, VC reckoning
- ▶ 18:09 Jason Calacanis If we look at the next cohort of companies, Airbnbs, Coinbases, Ubers, et cetera, they focus on the top line growth, much like the Amazon, which was a very obscure approach, correct Chamath, in, in the history of this.
- ▶ 37:01 David Friedberg I mean, think about how many companies try to look like some iteration of Stripe, or try to look like some iteration of Uber, or try to look like some iteration of, you know, name your big kind of behemoth.
E113: DOJ tries to break up Google, vaccine questions, Ukraine escalation & more
- ▶ 20:39 Jason Calacanis And then you may have noticed Uber's doing an ad business now.
E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
- ▶ 15:01 David Sacks Or become an Uber driver. 2 times in the scene
E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions!
- ▶ 29:17 Jason Calacanis I think the, uh, DoorDash's, AirBnB's, Ubers, Etsy's of the world, who need entrepreneurs, they need workers, they need supply.