Uber, every mention
9 scenes (said by Ranjan Roy), the whole family · ← back to Uber
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Uber comes up
Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble
- ▶ 49:53 Ranjan Roy This is one of the dumbest corporate espionage things I've ever seen, even though, even the, the Uber Waymo stuff back in the day had a little bit more, uh, like cloak and dagger elements to it.
Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
- ▶ 38:29 Ranjan Roy Uber surprised that they blew through their entire year's AI budget in a quarter.
SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War
- ▶ 51:10 Ranjan Roy And it was like, based on your location and a typical wait for an Uber at this time.
Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI
- ▶ 6:20 Ranjan Roy I think they can't just turn, I guess the biggest difference is that theory kind of held where there was the Uber, which again, it took them like six years after IPO-ing to actually become truly profitable at like a unit economics level.
Apple After Tim Cook, OpenAI’s New Mojo, Meta’s Internal Tracking Escapade
- ▶ 49:30 Ranjan Roy It was the Uber mentality as well.
Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff
- ▶ 8:43 Ranjan Roy I didn't even realize this is Emil Michael of Uber fame, right?
AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
- ▶ 25:05 Ranjan Roy Um, and this kind of makes the like, 20 tens VC subsidized Uber rides look like, you know, uh, a quaint memory where we're just able to get all this benefit as computer as consumers, um, and generate our Sora videos.
Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching?
- ▶ 12:59 Ranjan Roy I mean, this is like the mid-twenty-tens when we're all getting free Uber rides.
Russia Funds Tenet Media YouTubers
- ▶ 15:19 Ranjan Roy I actually, when I was in Taiwan, one of my Uber drivers had 10 phones on the dashboard and I asked him and he said he just scrolls and likes TikTok videos.