Travis Kalanick
13 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 16, 2026 by Travis Kalanick · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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Aug 16, 2026 negative
Kalanick: Traditional taxi industry captured regulators to make competition illegal
“It's everywhere, but taxis is by far the most intense, literally competent. We talk about Anti-competitive things and antitrust law and Rockefeller and things like this. No, no, no. Taxis. Competition is illegal. They've captured the regulators through lobbyin…”
Aug 16, 2026 positive
Kalanick: Founders should start fundraising auctions with intentionally low prices
“The right way to do it is to start with a low price... So a lot of entrepreneurs, they go and they say, they really have a, remember I said, attached to a process, not a price. So a lot of entrepreneurs will get attached to the price and not the process. And y…”
Aug 16, 2026 negative
Kalanick: Post-departure NYC regulations turned Uber into an expensive taxi system
“And if people are taking Ubers today in New York and wondering why it's so expensive, And why it's getting more unreliable. It's because after I left Uber, they started passing a bunch of laws that are turning Uber into the taxi system. They've, they have a li…”
Aug 16, 2026 positive
Kalanick: Uber's peak fundraising involved five simultaneous rooms tiered by check size
“Five rooms, 12 hours, one week... So I'm in the two hundred fifty million dollar check or over a room. Then there's like a hundred million dollar room and a fifty million dollar room and a twenty five million dollar room. And there'll be a guy in the twenty-fi…”
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Aug 16, 2026
Kalanick: Companies die when problem creation outpaces problem-solving capacity
“Imagine if you have this equation, which is the derivative of problem solving DT. Must always be greater than or equal to the derivative of problem creation DT. And if that's ever not true, you have a real problem. I call that the meta problem. So what's happe…”
Aug 16, 2026 neutral
Kalanick: Excessive analytical rigor in pitches hurts founders during tech super cycles
“When it's average, it's super important
To tell a beautiful story that's woven, like that, that, that's like a story that numbers are woven through.
It's a beautiful, entertaining, interesting story with analytical numbers woven through it.
And you basically g…”
Aug 16, 2026
Aug 16, 2026 positive
Kalanick: Uber never passed anti-competitor regulations or donated to political campaigns
“We had never at Uber, we never
Got a regulation passed that would hurt a competitor.
We never would do that.
That's just not how we rolled.
We never donated to a campaign.
Ever.
To try to get something passed.”
Aug 16, 2026 negative
Kalanick: Atoms builds specialized industry robots, not general humanoid robots
“It's I wouldn't call myself anti-humanoid. It's just what we're doing is not that. It's specialized robotics that it's not like we make robotics and anybody can have some. It's more like robotics and AI that go after an industry, one industry at a time.”