Travis Kalanick discusses Uber's U.S. market entry order relative to Lyft during the initial rollout of peer-to-peer ride sharing.
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China Forced Apple To Invest $1 Billion Into Didi, Kalanick Claims
“They made Apple invest a billion dollars in Didi, and Apple doesn't invest anything in anybody.”
Disclosure
Travis Kalanick reveals he rejected Masa Son's money for funding competitors
“I did not take money from Masa. So he begged me to take money for years, and we did not take it because he is a, he's a, what's the word I'm looking for? He's a promiscuous investor. So once he invests in you should probably count on him and using your informa…”
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Kalanick: Major Uber Investor Ran 6-Month PR Opposition Campaign Against Him
“If an investor is running a political oppo campaign against you for six months, sort of generating a crisis every week for six months straight, it's going to wear you down.”
Opinion
Kalanick: Under-16 social media bans aim to de-anonymize adults for censorship
“The real point of banning under-sixteen is so that you can force adults to identify themselves and de-anonymize themselves so you can set up a full-scale censorship regime, which they're sort of contemplating in the UK.”
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Travis Kalanick expects cheaper AI to paradoxically increase total industry revenue
“When AI gets cheap, you know what's going to happen, guys? There's going to be a lot more AI, right? I don't think, I think the price elasticity on this one is actually positive. So as the price goes down, the revenue usage, everything's going to go up.”
Insight
Travis Kalanick says mastering copying eventually forces a flip to genuine innovation
“When you get really, really good at copying and that time gets tighter and tighter and tighter and tighter and tighter, you eventually run out of things to copy. And then it flips to creativity and innovation.”