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Toast: Aman Narang. How a Long Wait for the Dinner Check Launched a $2 Billion Business.
- ▶ 11:11 Aman Narang In an Uber, we went back to a credit card machine, and that's how you have to pay.
Advice Line with Miguel McKelvey of WeWork
- ▶ 4:19 Miguel McKelvey And similar to Uber or Lyft, um, you know, Airbnb, some of these companies that, of my era that achieved great valuations
Advice Line with Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali of Chomps
- ▶ 15:31 Rashid Ali If you think of like DoorDash or Uber Eats, like that option out of a kitchen, like.
Advice Line with John Zimmer of Lyft
Pressbox and Tide Cleaners: Vijen Patel. The $1.99 Gamble That Built a National Brand
- ▶ 6:30 Guy Raz I mean, when you are in San Francisco, I mean, this is like, you know, that, that time, I mean, it's like Uber is starting to make waves, and obviously Airbnb is already, you know, really starting to have an impact, and Slack is, is coming… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:39 Guy Raz Was it going to be a, like, Uber for, for dry cleaning? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:28 Guy Raz Like, there was the Uber-Lyft wars, right, going on at that time.
Advice Line with Tony Xu of Doordash
- ▶ 6:08 Guy Raz Like, we talk, even back in 2018, we talked about, about on the show how, you know, at a certain point, Uber saw what you were doing, and Uber was a giant, a behemoth, and they start a competitor service, Uber Eats.
- ▶ 6:08 Guy Raz Like, we talk, even back in 2018, we talked about, about on the show how, you know, at a certain point, Uber saw what you were doing, and Uber was a giant, a behemoth, and they start a competitor service, Uber Eats.
Torchy's Tacos: Mike Rypka
- ▶ 37:49 Mike Rypka Um, there was no DoorDash or Uber Eats at this point.
Advice Line with Troy Carter of Atom Factory
UNTUCKit: Chris Riccobono
- ▶ 1:30 Guy Raz Uber could be a band.
- ▶ 24:27 Chris Riccobono We meet at a diner, you know, two times a week in the city on Fifth Ave, and we just, uh, listen, you never believed that this company, it was a shorter shirt, this wasn't technology, this wasn't, I started, uh, I'm gonna work on an Uber…
- ▶ 53:24 Chris Riccobono I mean, they invest in Uber, you know, 1,000,000,001, billion dollar tech companies, right?
Figma: Dylan Field
- ▶ 45:53 Dylan Field So, early customers like Coda, um, Notion, Microsoft, Uber, MindBody, you know, there was a bunch that, that started to really use the platform.
Advice Line with Jonathan Neman of Sweetgreen
- ▶ 37:33 Joey Cornell Um, believe it or not, guy, when I wasn't recipe testing or working on the business plan, I was driving Uber Eats and DoorDash. 2 times in the scene
SpotHero: Mark Lawrence
- ▶ 36:04 Mark Lawrence Um, Uber was also relevant.
- ▶ 51:05 Mark Lawrence And it felt like Uber.
- ▶ 58:41 Mark Lawrence The, the idea, every day in the media, Uber and Lyft is saying parking is dead, right? 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Travis Boersma of Dutch Bros
- ▶ 8:32 Sean Chang So with margins becoming thinner and thinner in the restaurant industry, we find our original strategy of delivery becoming highly unsustainable with delivery apps like Uber and DoorDash taking margins specifically in the city up to 50%. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Katlin Smith of Simple Mills
Resy and Eater: Ben Leventhal
- ▶ 2:39 Guy Raz The original model for Resi was a little like Uber and Surge Pricing.
- ▶ 20:52 Ben Leventhal Yeah, you could kind of book a chef like you could an Uber. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:50 Ben Leventhal This is an Uber for restaurants.
Advice Line with Serial Entrepreneur Marc Lore
- ▶ 23:33 Lindsay Shores Take an Uber.
Boll & Branch: Scott and Missy Tannen
BARK: Matt Meeker
Advice Line with Lara Merriken of LÄRABAR
- ▶ 21:59 Mariano Cuesta Uh, you've got the Uber drivers, the truck drivers who appreciated this because they didn't have to go to the bathroom after drinking coffee. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Leah Solivan of Taskrabbit
Advice Line with Scott and Ally Svenson of MOD Pizza
- ▶ 34:51 Christiana Martins I'm sort of taking the Uber approach, where, you know, we'll probably break even with this next price drop, but for us, like, velocity and just getting this product in front of people is really important, because that's our biggest
Insomnia Cookies: Seth Berkowitz
- ▶ 20:11 Seth Berkowitz Grubhub, Seamless Web, Uber Eats concept that was on college campuses.
- ▶ 57:21 Guy Raz And how did DoorDash start to change your business, and Uber Eats, and all these places, Grubhub?
- ▶ 57:50 Seth Berkowitz And so I didn't really open up to the DoorDash and Ubers of the world in earnest until the middle of COVID when we had to rethink the entire business model.
AI that can be your second brain with Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri of Humane
Sharing the 2023 HIBT Lab Highlight Reel
- ▶ 12:00 Pinky Cole Online through DoorDash, Postmates, Grubhub, and Uber Eats.
- ▶ 13:37 Guy Raz So when you started out, right, in, in a ghost kitchen, which is true, like if you go to DoorDash or Uber Eats today, like a lot of the, and I do it all the time, I'll order up, I'm like, oh, this looks pretty good.
The future of driving is autonomous with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo
- ▶ 0:46 Guy Raz The Waymo Taxi is now available 24 seven in San Francisco and Phoenix, and it operates similar to Uber or Lyft.
- ▶ 25:06 Guy Raz What was, was the idea of like, hey, let's get these in really good shape, and then, you know, we'll, we'll turn them into like, like Ubers.
- ▶ 27:29 Guy Raz Um, they're Jaguar SUVs, all electric, um, and they, driving around the city, and you just order it like an Uber.
- ▶ 35:38 Guy Raz Like, you know, I'm sure, I know you've got a partnership that you announced with Uber, but, um, I mean, is the idea that, you know, in 10 years time, um, this is going to be the primary, your primary business or, or a part of what you do? 4 times in the scene
When our phones are just phones with Kai Tang and Joe Hollier of Light
- ▶ 15:43 Kai Tang Our users were telling us that they wanted to go light more often, meaning use light phone more often, but they don't have Uber. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:28 Guy Raz I went to San Francisco to have lunch with a friend, and I hailed an Uber, and then I looked at a map app to see how long it would take me to get there, and I got to the restaurant a few minutes early, so I checked my Gmail, and
Powering cars with solar energy with Steve Fambro of Aptera Motors
Grindr: Joel Simkhai
- ▶ 28:11 Joel Simkhai There was no Uber, there was no Foursquare, there was nothing like that.
- ▶ 31:48 Joel Simkhai You know, Uber at one point was a big advertiser, so other apps would advertise.
Twilio: Jeff Lawson
- ▶ 3:18 Guy Raz Its communications technology connects big brands like Airbnb or Uber or DoorDash or even Nike and Toyota to consumers in ways that have become so natural, so intuitive, that we barely even think about them today.
- ▶ 40:37 Jeff Lawson You know, like one of our early customers was Uber, and they, they came to us and said, well, actually, we want to let you know when your ride's arriving. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:55 Guy Raz I think a big turning point for you was, was, or maybe not, I don't know, but, but Uber started to use Twilio, and I guess this is probably still early in Uber's history, so maybe it wasn't a significant, um, amount of revenue at the time. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:58 Guy Raz Um, Uber eventually became a significant, very significant. 10 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole
- ▶ 26:33 Pinky Cole Online through DoorDash, um, Postmates, Grubhub, um, and Uber Eats.
- ▶ 28:09 Guy Raz So when you started out, right, in, in a ghost kitchen, which is true, like if you go to DoorDash or Uber Eats today, like a lot of the, and I do it all the time, I'll order up, I'm like, oh, this looks pretty good.
HIBT Lab! Nuro: Dave Ferguson
HIBT Lab! Goodr: Jasmine Crowe-Houston
- ▶ 24:28 Jasmine Crowe-Houston Yeah, I mean, I almost look at it almost as like a reverse, like Uber Eats or Instacart, where we would inventory everything it is that the business sells, so all their food and food items.
- ▶ 30:34 Jasmine Crowe-Houston And so when I first started, I was, you know, spending all my time in like Uber driver and Lyft driver Facebook groups, and I was trying to recruit all these Uber and Lyft drivers, and, and then I thought, 3 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Cruise: Kyle Vogt
- ▶ 18:14 Kyle Vogt On the other hand, um, what had been happening in parallel is these ride hailing companies like Uber and Lyft had exploded in popularity.
- ▶ 31:13 Guy Raz It, it operates like an Uber or Lyft.
- ▶ 34:41 Guy Raz You're sitting in the back of this car, and, uh, within 20 seconds, it's no different than sitting in the back of an Uber.
- ▶ 46:47 Guy Raz and I mean, you can operate like an Uber or Lyft now without a driver in, you know, almost anywhere.
ButcherBox: Mike Salguero
HIBT Lab! Wonder: Marc Lore
Noom: Saeju Jeong
TaskRabbit: Leah Solivan
- ▶ 2:29 Guy Raz Those three developments would, of course, eventually power companies like Lyft and Uber and Airbnb and Instacart and DoorDash.
- ▶ 15:01 Guy Raz Yeah, I hate going on the snow, and this is before Uber, this is before, like, things that just, that we've now come to depend on, unfortunately, or fortunately, um, depending on your perspective, but.
- ▶ 24:35 Guy Raz You know, I'm just curious, just, it's a bit of an aside, but this is the time when Uber and Lyft and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:45 Leah Solivan Now, at this time, you're also starting to see Uber and Lyft and Airbnb, all these other, you know, peer-to-peer economies really start to take off and start to emerge. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:37 Leah Solivan It turned out that we needed to really change the trajectory of the product into this mobile-first, fast-paced, on-demand service, which was more analogous to Uber and Lyft and all these other services and all these other competitors,…
HIBT Lab! BlocPower: Donnel Baird
- ▶ 34:23 Donnel Baird If I'm doing my job, like we will be investing in R&D and expansion, just like Uber did, right?
- ▶ 41:01 Donnel Baird They've invested in Uber and Airbnb and all these incredible companies that have done really, really well, and they've made a ton of money.
PODS & Red Rover: Pete Warhurst
HIBT Lab! WeWork: Miguel McKelvey
- ▶ 9:12 Miguel McKelvey I mean, if you look about what did the market want, it completely changed after Uber's IPO.
Audible: Don Katz
KAYAK: Paul English
- ▶ 1:08:58 Guy Raz Um, you have been an Uber driver. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:30 Guy Raz That's Paul English, occasional Uber driver, and founder or co-founder of, among other things, Kayak, Lola.com, Moonbeam, Intermute, Get Human, Speed Games, Boston Light Software, and the online Chinese chess site, ShangChi.com.
Live From The HIBT Summit: Adam Grant
Robert Reffkin: Compass
- ▶ 1:07:35 Robert Reffkin Is Uber a tax limousine commission or a technology company?
Live From HIBT Summit: Payal Kadakia, Tristan Walker, and Perry Chen on Innovation
- ▶ 39:19 Perry Chen I think that's something that nobody thinks about at all, uh, has thought about at all for a long time, but I think this is going to be an error, and that's how things are going to differentiate, because, you know, you look at like a, a…
Casper: Philip Krim
- ▶ 1:08:58 Philip Krim You had Uber and Lyft who were going public and not profitable.
Meet The HIBT Fellows: Mark Atlan & Zach Correa
Live Episode! Clubhouse: Paul Davison and Rohan Seth
Food52: Amanda Hesser
- ▶ 53:41 Amanda Hesser They always want you to be the Uber of something, or they want you to be something that's already just familiar to them, but we were trying to build something that just didn't exist, and
How I Built Resilience: Kara Goldin of Hint
How I Built Resilience: John Zimmer of Lyft
How I Built Resilience: Bert and John Jacobs of Life is Good
- ▶ 4:47 John Jacobs In a supermarket in, uh, with Uber, etc.
How I Built Resilience: Ajay Prakash and James Joun of Rinse
- ▶ 6:44 Guy Raz State legislature passed a law clearly targeting Uber and Lyft that,
- ▶ 14:32 Ajay Prakash I think the one thing we found, I mean, we started when Uber and Lyft were the arms race was going.
- ▶ 16:34 Ajay Prakash And the why now was that, you know, Uber and Lyft had basically, uh, made the consumers realize they could use the mobile phone as a remote control for their life.
Vita Coco: Michael Kirban
ClassPass: Payal Kadakia
- ▶ 36:52 Payal Kadakia It's like, sometimes it's easier to call a cab than, than Uber, but you still do Uber because it's like in your phone. 2 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Live with Sadie Lincoln
- ▶ 7:51 Sadie Lincoln I mean, overnight, it was so interesting watching, like, I started to watch the Today Show because I was home, and the commercials, even, like, Uber or major brands were acknowledging this era, and in those commercials, they were usually…
Cotopaxi: Davis Smith
Stripe: Patrick and John Collison (2018)
Live From The HIBT Summit: Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 11:55 Stewart Butterfield It's Jaws meets Star Wars, or it's Uber for whatever, because people already have those concepts in their head, and they can kind of put it together to figure out what this thing is.
Live From The HIBT Summit: Troy Carter
Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
- ▶ 11:57 Tristan Walker Twitter, Airbnb, Uber, all that stuff, right?
Framebridge: Susan Tynan (2017)
- ▶ 11:19 Susan Tynan It was called Taxi Magic that was actually had an iPhone app to hail taxis pre Uber.
- ▶ 30:07 Susan Tynan So they kept saying every night, you know, you have to bring your, you have to leave with your boxes, and so we would Uber home at night with boxes of, uh,
Compaq Computers: Rod Canion (2019)
Squarespace: Anthony Casalena
SoulCycle: Julie Rice & Elizabeth Cutler
- ▶ 31:55 Elizabeth Cutler And then we would walk out, because our studio was in the rear lobby, we would walk out, and we would see the town cars and the SUVs lined up, like, back to back to back to back, and this was before Uber, so, you know, fancy people would…
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