Uber

“We raised fifteen billion between June of 14 And June of 16. So in two years. So all that fundraising we did, I was there for four years, was concentrated in two years.”

“99% of the people who went through Uber say it was the best experience of their life. What you read about is that one percent, and I think people are really longing for that culture again in business.”

“A thirty-something former Bain consultant, because they had a little chip on their shoulder relative to McKinsey Consultants. They want to win, they're more analytical, so less theoretical in strategy, and more like, okay, I'm going to do this.”

“Six hundred million? Five X. Yeah, six hundred billion. We would have been Instacart. We would have had a payment system because we'd have so much share of wallet. There was so much more we would have done.”

“We had a female general manager in Milan, and they posted her face all over the city saying, kill this woman. They snuck into her apartment at night and hung a sign from her apartment to the apartment across the road, Saying she, you know, she has a relationsh…”

“And now I would argue that Brian Chesky could not have built Uber.”

“We lost half a million customers.”

“Uber over time has probably paid a hundred billion dollars to drivers. A hundred billion dollars.”

“You can't leave until you do two things. You create liquidity in that market. Liquidity meant you could get a ride in 10 minutes or less anywhere in the city. That means you have to find out where the drivers are, you have to market to consumers, you have to d…”

“What's the difference between Lyft and Uber? We started at the same time. Lyft is worth six billion dollars today. That's a 20 x difference. The single difference was leadership and ambition, right? The only thing you could attribute it to, because they starte…”

“We have the partnership where, where there are demand funnel and where You know, when you pull up the Uber app and you say you want to go to, you know, you're in New York, you want to go to JFK, that it'll seamlessly stitch a, an Uber trip to the VertiPort and…”

“We acquired the Uber Elevate team from Uber, and that is the foundation of all the servers and the algorithms that run on the back end based on Uber's best in class architecture, and then also the app.”