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Emil Michael: Uber has paid roughly $100B to drivers over time
“Uber over time has probably paid a hundred billion dollars to drivers. A hundred billion dollars.”
Emil Michael Feb 14, 2024 ▶ 29:24 Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
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Uber's Milan general manager faced cartel death threats and a home break-in
“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…”
Emil Michael Feb 14, 2024 ▶ 21:10 Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
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Michael: Uber lost 500,000 customers during #DeleteUber campaign
“We lost half a million customers.”
Emil Michael Feb 14, 2024 ▶ 26:06 Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
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Emil Michael: Uber raised $15 billion between June 2014 and June 2016
“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.”
Emil Michael Feb 14, 2024 ▶ 18:33 Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
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Bevirt: The Uber app will seamlessly stitch ground rides with Joby flights
“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…”
JoeBen Bevirt Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 32:57 How 200MPH Flying Cars are about to Change the World · Joe Lonsdale
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Bevirt: Joby acquired Uber Elevate to power backend servers and app
“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.”
JoeBen Bevirt Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 33:19 How 200MPH Flying Cars are about to Change the World · Joe Lonsdale
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