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▶ 1:13 Guy Raz Uh, you had an epic battle with your main competitor, Uber, which was quite ugly, and there's actually a, uh, sort of a dramatization of this that came out a couple years ago.

▶ 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.

▶ 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.

▶ 2:04 Guy Raz You got in early on, on companies like Uber and Lyft and Spotify, and you also had a stint at Spotify for a while.

▶ 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?

▶ 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.

▶ 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

▶ 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

▶ 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

▶ 25:34 Tim Taves Just go and do Uber and DoorDash to make the ends meet, and then do everything else to get the hot sauce out there, so that's where I'm kind of at. 2 times in the scene

▶ 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.

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