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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Uber comes up
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
Elon gets paid, Apple's AI pop, OpenAI revenue rip, Macro debate & Inside Trump Fundraiser
- ▶ 41:43 Jason Calacanis In my mind, you're going to be able to say things like you want to order something in DoorDash or Uber Eats or Instacart and it's
DOJ targets Nvidia, Meme stock comeback, Trump fundraiser in SF, Apple/OpenAI, Texas stock market
- ▶ 17:03 Jason Calacanis Did Uber get bought by?
- ▶ 1:03:16 Jason Calacanis That Apple is going to try to let Siri dive deeper into apps, i.e. if you were ordering your DoorDash or Uber Eats or an Uber or Lyft or whatever, it might actually be able to execute those things inside of an app. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:16 Jason Calacanis That Apple is going to try to let Siri dive deeper into apps, i.e. if you were ordering your DoorDash or Uber Eats or an Uber or Lyft or whatever, it might actually be able to execute those things inside of an app.
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. 3 times in the scene
Sam Altman: Getting Fired (and Re-Hired) by OpenAI, Agents, AI Copyright issues
- ▶ 0:16 Jason Calacanis I did Uber, and in that tiny experiment. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:10 Chamath Palihapitiya So for example, if you look at an Instacart, or if you look at an Uber, or if you look at a DoorDash, these are not services that are meant to be pipes that are just providing a set of APIs to a smart set of agents that ubiquitously work… 4 times in the scene
Meta's scorched earth approach to AI, Tesla's future, TikTok bill, FTC bans noncompetes, wealth tax
- ▶ 0:43 Jason Calacanis And then I had to sell Uber shares to cover it.
- ▶ 30:04 Chamath Palihapitiya Sorry, meanwhile, and sorry, just to contrast, Uber and Lyft seemingly are profitable because they find pricing power to raise prices.
- ▶ 31:09 David Sacks Remember when, you know, Uber first 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:02 David Sacks Cal, you are the third investor in Uber. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:44 Chamath Palihapitiya Is that like Uber and Lyft? 6 times in the scene
E173: Google buying HubSpot? FTX depositors not made whole, AI job fears, Ukraine joining NATO
- ▶ 42:11 Jason Calacanis And to build on your point, Freeberg, this is why Amazon and Uber and Instacart have become such major, major players in advertising.
- ▶ 1:02:23 Jason Calacanis I saw Waymo is doing Uber Eats deliveries. 2 times in the scene
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.
- ▶ 1:05:40 Jason Calacanis Uber in New York, and he launched his own note-taking app.
E167: Google's Woke AI disaster, Nvidia smashes earnings (again), Groq's LPU breakthrough & more
- ▶ 44:03 Jason Calacanis And then totally very high profile VC came to me and said, okay, I'll, I'll do the series a for, um, I'll do the series a for Uber. 2 times in the scene
E166: Mind-blowing AI Video: OpenAI launches Sora + Is Biden too old? Tucker/Putin interview & more
- ▶ 11:27 Jason Calacanis This was in, you know, the 2009 Uber kind of Robin hood period. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:36 Jason Calacanis Just because there's an eight in front of the Uber stock price doesn't mean I can retire.
E165: Vision Pro: use or lose? Meta vs Snap, SaaS recovery, AI investing, rolling real estate crisis
- ▶ 12:34 Jason Calacanis And I would not discount that when, you know, the ability to monetize the app ecosystem and have all the people who are already building the calm app, the Uber app, whatever notion, you know, all the stuff that people use and love Spotify,…
E164: Zuck’s Senate apology, Elon's comp package voided, crony capitalism, Reddit IPO, drone attack
- ▶ 2:27 David Sacks Wait, you're telling me that they didn't have the third or fourth investor in Uber up, but ringing the bell with them at the original moment?
- ▶ 1:09:20 Jason Calacanis At a really low number for a long time, and people have been talking about them possibly being a takeout candidate by DoorDash or Amazon or Uber.
E163: Market rips, Media RIFs, Texas defies Biden, Fintech reckoning, ARkStorm 2.0 & more
- ▶ 18:49 Jason Calacanis And Amazon, Uber building respectable ad businesses as well.
- ▶ 1:26:01 Jason Calacanis And people conflate the numbers, especially in the early stage of startups, people were referring to Airbnb and Uber and DoorDash's revenue as the gross market, you know, transactions and like, well, yeah.
E162: Live from Davos! Milei goes viral, Adam Neumann's headwinds, streaming's broken model & more
- ▶ 55:15 Jason Calacanis That's right next to the already, you know, portfolio of, uh, of Uber offerings.
E161: US strikes Houthis, market instability, Q1 rate cuts in doubt, Carta's major mishap, DEI
- ▶ 1:03:04 Jason Calacanis Uber, Airbnb.
E160: 2024 Predictions! Markets, tech, politics, and more
- ▶ 56:22 Jason Calacanis So they're going to go for small luxuries like DoorDash, Airbnb, Uber, small things to have great experiences.