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Kalanick argues 2021 tech bubble was driven by zero interest-rate policy
“I don't believe it was a physical versus digital thing. I believe it was a moment in time in the COVID, ZERP, massive money going in. We hadn't seen inflation yet. It was all of that happening. And the investor class was basically deciding we're going to look …”
Kalanick: In capital-intensive markets, fundraising is a core competency
“In the Uber world early days, if you didn't have capital, it didn't matter how good your app was, because Masa is going to put a billion dollars into your competitor, and you're going to lose 20% market share tomorrow. So a critical competency, in fact, your w…”
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.”
Kalanick: Distributed AI training fails over distances as short as two kilometers
“Honestly, guys, even if it's on your own fiber connected, like, two kilometers away, you're screwed. It's not a thing.”
Kalanick: Physical automation treats manufacturing, real estate, and logistics as computing resources
“CPU manipulates bits. What manipulates atoms? Manufacturing. Storage stores bits. What stores atoms? Real estate. Network moves bits from point A to point B. What moves atoms? That's transportation or logistics. So you have these three core computing resources…”
Travis Kalanick identifies utility upgrades as the primary commercial construction bottleneck
“In the U.S. And really around the world, utility upgrades is the long pole in the tent in, in construction development.”
Travis Kalanick: Companies break when problem creation outpaces problem solving
“As long as the problems you're solving are greater than the problems you're creating, then you're fine. When the problems you're creating are, starts to, when the derivative of problems you're creating is greater than the derivative of the problems you're solv…”