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▶ 51:09 Bill Gurley Most people that were investing in the category knew it had winner-take-all dynamics and network effects, and as a result, there was this determination that they were just going to have to fund it kind of ad nauseum, and you had a…

▶ 43:53 Garry Tan You know, offline to online marketplaces like Uber in cars or delivery, or you could say Instacart, DoorDash, you could throw in, you know, Lyft.

▶ 2:03:35 Alfred Lin Yeah, it was hard, because if you, um, the, the one thing that, um, you know, if you sort of believed that it was more profitable to, to transport humans than deliver food, have you, then you would come to the conclusion that Uber and Lyft…

▶ 40:49 Laurie Santos And what he found was, like, he had to get rid of it, you know, not because of the social media, but because, like, you know, he needed it to, like, call an Uber or a Lyft, or, like, you know, he needed, like, to look at the map, you know,…

▶ 27:49 Jason Calacanis What about the 10 companies that tried to compete with Uber and Lyft who are no longer here?
▶ 45:53 Jason Calacanis Lyft is one of them. 2 times in the scene

▶ 5:00 Mike Maples Jr. And then there's other companies that we did decide to invest in, Twitter, Twitch, Okta, Lyft. 2 times in the scene
▶ 18:43 Mike Maples Jr. So, for example, we invested in Lyft when it was Zimride back in 2010, and it would be very easy for us to believe we knew more than we knew at the time we made that investment. 3 times in the scene
▶ 41:24 Mike Maples Jr. So like in the case of Lyft, for example, you had to believe that enough people would have smartphones so that enough people who wanted to be riders would have a smartphone and enough people who had to be, who wanted to be drivers would… 2 times in the scene
▶ 44:22 Mike Maples Jr. But then, uh, Lyft had a few differences to their implementation than what Sidecar had, and then they also had just some clever things in terms of how they marketed it and how they got distribution.
▶ 56:12 Mike Maples Jr. And so, uh, I believe that three D printing will be the way that we get network manufacturing and like Lyft is an example of a network capitalist, uh, ride service, whereas a taxi is a corporate hierarchical ride service.

▶ 1:40:58 Patrick Collison Uh, and you can see it now in the sort of latest generation of upstarts, you know, be it Twitter, or Uber, or Airbnb, or Lyft, or whatever, who are, you know, facing these really significant kind of, you know, structural headwinds.

▶ 10:44 Naval Ravikant When I'm on vacation, I'll read, but if I'm sitting in a Lyft or an Uber, I'll read, uh, sometimes in the morning,

▶ 47:40 Venkatesh Rao What does it mean to be a citizen of, say, the Amazon ecosystem, or the Google ecosystem, or an app developer for Apple, or a driver for Lyft or Uber?

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