Uber

“Are you going to build the fleet to average or peak? And by the way, you lose whatever your answer is. If you build it to average, you're not going to be able to serve your customers during the peak at all. Like they're only going to be disappointed. And if yo…”

“I think in the Uber case in the U S about five percent of gross revenue goes to insurance.”

“We still think that the margin goes up from, let's call it seven percent of gross bookings to something like 12 or 14% of gross bookings, even taking into account all of that bill.”

“So I think they probably launch it you know you know, on a standalone basis. They get a lot of excitement and a lot of customer love for it. But my sense is by the time you scale this, it probably does have to be an open system.”

“Saying that crypto and blockchain would replace the corporate entity. Like, and that marketplace companies like Uber wouldn't exist and all this stuff. Like, and that just didn't play out. And I don't think it's going to, you know, I'll go out on a limb.”

“Companies have already raised their hands from Uber to Dell, Oracle to Nvidia, and said they would contribute to the accounts of the kids of their employees, parents,”

“Dell Corporation, for example, has raised their hand and said, you know, we intend to give to the kids of our employees. So has Uber. So has Nvidia. So has Oracle. So has Salesforce. So has T-Mobile. So has iHeartMedia.”

“Look, there's just no denying that the amount of capital that is going into these companies earlier in their life and the scale of hiring and their willingness to take on risk, which I think you can use cash burn as just a proxy for risk because you get furthe…”