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All-In x Kill Tony: A Hilarious Holiday Special
- ▶ 9:03 Tony Hinchcliffe He was an early investor in Uber, and out of everyone up here, he's the closest one to having to be one of the drivers.
Scott Bessent: Fixing the Fed, Tariffs for National Security, Solving Affordability in 2026
- ▶ 34:07 Jason Calacanis You know, are you buying Nvidia's and Uber's and Google's because those are great companies or Microsoft's?
Bernie Sanders Says Stop All AI, China's Breakthrough, Inflation Down, Golden Age in 2026?
- ▶ 8:05 David Friedberg It was the end applications that made all the money, and they competed in many different markets from Google to Amazon to Uber.
- ▶ 29:34 David Sacks And then as soon as we sort of seem to have agreement, then the people in the model race out to the Bailey and basically saying, well, look at what's happening with Uber drivers or what have you. 5 times in the scene
Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia
NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
- ▶ 39:58 Jason Calacanis 2.1 million people work at Walmart, over a million at Amazon, and three million people, as we know, work in taxis, Uber, DoorDashers.
Trump: Send National Guard to SF, China Rare Earths Trade War, AI's PR Crisis
- ▶ 57:32 Jason Calacanis If you think about the average American citizen, you know, they have somebody in their family who drives for Uber or DoorDash, they have truck drivers, they have Amazon factory workers, and all those jobs are going away.
- ▶ 1:02:42 Jason Calacanis Freeberg, CEO of Uber and Tesla believe the opposite. 3 times in the scene
Cathie Wood on How AI Can Double GDP, Bull Case for Bitcoin $1M, Elon’s Trillion-Dollar Pay Package
- ▶ 14:18 Jason Calacanis I drove in a FSD car when Tesla was private, or whatever it is, and where I looked at Coinbase when it was private, or Uber.
- ▶ 18:57 unnamed speaker It's like J-Cal suing Uber, Kathy.
Trump Brokers Gaza Peace Deal, National Guard in Chicago, OpenAI/AMD, AI Roundtripping, Gold Rally
- ▶ 0:23 Jason Calacanis You know, you put the Uber stock price and the Robinhood stock price together, one of 50.
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built
- ▶ 2:51 Roelof Botha You helped us with the investment in Uber.
Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy
- ▶ 2:33 Jason Calacanis And you know many of the things, Lucid Motors, Live Golf, the SoftBank Vision Fund, Uber back in the day, Newcastle, the Premier League.
Multicoin Capital’s Kyle Samani on Internet Capital Markets
- ▶ 11:37 Kyle Samani Soon, you're going to be able to buy Tremont's newest back, maybe some Uber from Jason,
Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
- ▶ 1:00:11 Keller Rinaudo Clifton I mean, it's the reason that, like, Waymo right now is more expensive, and people prefer Waymo to Uber.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on self-driving's future, changing business model, job displacement
- ▶ 0:06 unnamed speaker Record high today for Uber. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:43 Jason Calacanis Dara, I wasn't sure if you were aware, but I was an early investor in Uber.
- ▶ 1:05 Jason Calacanis How many partners does Uber have in autonomy today? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:12 Dara Khosrowshahi That if it's showing up on the Uber platform, it is as safe as safe can be, and our different definition of safety is multiple times safer than a human being, which is achievable. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:34 unnamed speaker In the old world, um, uh, Uber's network effect was a marketplace effect where you connected drivers and riders, and if you had the most geographic density in an area, then you could promise riders faster pickups, and the drivers got… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:36 Dara Khosrowshahi So, I mean, that ultimately is, you know, even if you, if you think about Uber Eats, right, there's this drama, which is, hey, do you go direct only or do you work with a marketplace?
- ▶ 12:52 Dara Khosrowshahi So in Austin and Atlanta, if you're using Uber, ah, you can be picked up, ah, with a Waymo.
- ▶ 16:14 Jason Calacanis One of the great, you know, sort of early insights we had at Uber was around profitability, and the press and the narrative was, oh, Uber could never be profitable, and 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:59 unnamed speaker You, um, have a very big business in Uber Eats.
- ▶ 20:05 Dara Khosrowshahi It's not something that we are getting into. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:17 Jason Calacanis What's the best pitch to Elon to put a 100,000 robo taxis into the Uber fleet while still doing his own, cause his app is doing spectacularly well and the, and the pilots are doing well. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:18 Jason Calacanis That group of people losing their jobs, these drivers who built the Uber network, who built Lyft, who built DoorDash, and China's overwhelming concern about this, um, because these are robots taking human jobs, and there's an, you know,… 3 times in the scene
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on tokenizing stocks, expanding access to private shares, fintech's future
- ▶ 1:05 Jason Calacanis I mean, people know me for the Uber investment, which is a four or five million dollar valuation, but there's- When do I flip that?
Nasdaq CEO Reveals the Next Era Of The Stock Market - Adena Friedman | All-In Summit
- ▶ 7:29 Jason Calacanis The stay private longer moment took Uber 11 long years.
- ▶ 15:51 Jason Calacanis We heard, um, uh, Vlad talk earlier today about tokenizing OpenAI and SpaceX, and I know when Masayoshi-san wanted to buy a bunch of, um, Uber when it was a private company, they did that through NASDAQ, uh, and I guess second market?
Trump Takes On the Fed, US-Intel Deal, Why Bankruptcies Are Up, OpenAI's Longevity Breakthrough
- ▶ 1:26:55 Jason Calacanis I mean, what is Uber trading at?
Every Investor Needs To Understand This Concept - David Friedberg
- ▶ 1:02 David Friedberg In technology venture investing, because when you find that one or two great hit, the Uber, that has a great network effect, or the Airbnb, or the Google, it has a runaway effect in the market, and it accumulates all the capital and…
- ▶ 5:29 David Friedberg Uber went public seventy five billion after nine years as a private company, and now they're worth one hundred ninety billion. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 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… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:56 David Friedberg There were a lot of people who were very vocal supporters of Palantir, very vocal supporters of Uber, of Spotify when these companies went public, and a lot of people said, no, they're overvalued, they're naysayers.
AI Bubble Pops, Zuck Freezes Hiring, Newsom’s 2028 Surge, Russia/Ukraine Endgame
- ▶ 6:20 Jason Calacanis Uber CEO hitting an all-time high.
- ▶ 25:37 Jason Calacanis We saw this with Uber as an example.
AI Psychosis, America's Broken Social Fabric, Trump Takes Over DC Police, Is VC Broken?
- ▶ 3:46 Jason Calacanis I was like, I'm an Uber.
- ▶ 1:12:14 David Friedberg In technology venture investing, because when you find that one or two great hit, the Uber, that has a great network effect, or the Airbnb, or the Google, it has a runaway effect in the market, and it accumulates all the capital and… 2 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… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:01 Jason Calacanis And I was just always perplexed when I would hear, you know, people on CNBC talking about Uber and Robin Hood specifically, because they would be talking, 4 times in the scene
OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
- ▶ 6:43 Jason Calacanis My guy, Dara from Uber, with the two hundred billion dollar market cap.
- ▶ 1:32:19 Jason Calacanis They could have bought Disney for a hundred fifty billion, Netflix, a hundred fifty billion, Tesla for a hundred billion in 2020, Uber for a hundred billion in 2021, Robin Hood for under ten billion in 2022, and BMW.
Trump AI Speech & Action Plan, DC Summit Recap, Hot GDP Print, Trade Deals, Altman Warns No Privacy
- ▶ 52:52 Jason Calacanis Alibaba's co-founder, Josiah, Tama Bravo co-founder, ARK Invest, Cathie Wood, Uber CEO, Dara, Sequoia's Rolof Botha, YouTuber, Cleo Abram, and many, many more coming.
Winning the AI Race Part 1: Michael Kratsios, Kelly Loeffler, Shyam Sankar, Chris Power
- ▶ 1:07:13 Jason Calacanis Uh, and this is an abundance that I think people are maybe not even realizing yet is that a whole group of journalists, writers who are being displaced or, you know, Uber drivers or people working in factories,
Trump vs Powell, Solving the Debt Crisis, The $10T AGI Prize, GENIUS Act Becomes Law
- ▶ 11:01 David Friedberg And so making adjustments to the short end of the treasury curve, making overnight loans cheaper, which is what the fed can do, will stimulate the economy and make more money flow easily because now you'll be able to borrow money overnight…
Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs
- ▶ 3:32 Jason Calacanis They've got a deal with, um, a livery company called Uber, which you might be familiar with. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:38 Travis Kalanick The courier, via DoorDash, Uber Eats courier, will wave their app in front of a camera, and it will open up the locker that has the food that they're supposed to pick up. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:06 Jason Calacanis Then you take out the cost of the delivery, you know, and now it's becoming, everybody can have a private check, which was your original vision for Uber. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:10 Travis Kalanick So, you know, like Uber Eats and DoorDash, they represent like 1.8% or two percent of all meals right now.
- ▶ 1:26:22 Jason Calacanis All due respect, you found an Uber, you're very high profile, you go to this back end, is this like held at the Motel eight in like a conference room in the back? 2 times in the scene
Big Beautiful Bill, Elon/Trump, Dollar Down Big, Harvard's Money Problems, Figma IPO
- ▶ 1:11:22 Jason Calacanis Uber blew past 88, so I should be retired right now.
12 Day War, Socialism Wins in NYC, Stocks All-Time High, AI Copyright, Science Corner
- ▶ 3:42 Jason Calacanis Uber hit another record today, so with Uber past 88, you guys are all, I don't have to be here anymore. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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