China
5 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 16, 2026 by Travis Kalanick · said 65 times in 12 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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2026 63 mentions in 11 episodes 6 per episode
- Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber
- Bootstrapping a Business to $5 Billion in Free Cash Flow | AppLovin’s Adam Foroughi
- The Comms Strategist Behind Anduril, Shopify & Cognition | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- Founder of CAA Michael Ovitz: "I Just Knew I Was Going to Outwork Every One of Them"
- The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
- Building Defense Technologies to Protect Democracies | Torsten Reil, Helsing
- Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- Jimmy Iovine: Building Interscope Records & Beats by Dre
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about China, oldest first
Aug 16, 2026 neutral
Kalanick: Expanding a tech business into China requires starting from scratch
“What you learn when you go and do what we did in China is you learn that when you go and take your business and go to China, you have to start over. So many people think that you can take your business and take it somewhere, which by the way, Uber kind of like…”
Aug 16, 2026 neutral
Kalanick: Uber gave Baidu 7% equity to survive Chinese regulatory heat
“Now we eventually did get a partner, but instead of giving up 50%, we gave up, I think it was seven percent and it was to Baidu, but it was because we were getting massive regulatory heat. And as long as we had a partner by our side, we could be Chinese.”
Aug 16, 2026 negative
Kalanick: Only Apple and Elon Musk have succeeded in China
“Most entrepreneurs, let's say Western entrepreneurs that go to China, that is almost none succeed... In our neck of the woods, you're like, okay, Elon definitely did, right? And Apple definitely did. Tim Apple and Elon, right? Those are the two guys.”
Aug 16, 2026
Aug 16, 2026 bullish
Kalanick: At one point, Uber's top 10 global cities were all Chinese
“At some point, probably our top 10 cities were all Chinese cities. That's wild. In rides. Yeah. Not in revenue because the rides instead of like at the, in my day, 13 bucks, 15 bucks, whatever they were, these were like three bucks, two bucks type stuff.”