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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Uber comes up
Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 26:41 Bill Gurley For Uber, it was like, you know, fifteen billion.
- ▶ 50:41 Shane Parrish What are the, what are some of the real world lessons you learned while working with Uber that you wouldn't find in like an HBS case study? 3 times in the scene
Ai Goes Parabolic | OpenAI Co-Founder Greg Brockman
- ▶ 1:05:28 Greg Brockman And as an example, just think about Uber being described as someone in 1950.
How to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear
- ▶ 1:53:35 James Clear Like if you couldn't tell people I was an early investor in Uber, you know, if you couldn't tell them I, you know, I invested in Facebook, would you still do it?
Be Your Best in 2026: The Most Important Lessons from The Knowledge Project (2025)
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 1:04:21 Benedict Evans But the counter argument would be to say, yeah, you'll use it to do chat GPT, and DoorDash, and Uber, and Instagram, and that cool new game, and that other new cool game that's enabled by LLMs, and to do TikTok, and to do and, and, and,…
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
- ▶ 1:03:51 Pierre Poilievre Call an Uber because the driver's probably a doctor.
Logan Ury: The Dating Myths You Need to Stop Believing
Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
- ▶ 6:55 Josh Wolfe So APIs allow meta with their meta glasses or Ryan to be able to communicate with, uh, Uber and, you know, Spotify, uh, through the backend, through software.
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 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…
Matthew Dicks: The Storytelling Expert
- ▶ 1:09:59 Matthew Dicks If I say to you, I got in the Uber today to come over here but, that just makes you want to hear the next part of that sentence. 2 times in the scene
Brian Halligan: Building HubSpot into a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 32:14 Brian Halligan I think the guy running Uber has done a nice job. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:18 Brian Halligan Let's take Uber. 4 times in the scene
Carolyn Coughlin: Become A Better Listener
- ▶ 29:21 Carolyn Coughlin When they're commuting, they're like in an Uber or something, going from one side of Manhattan to the other side of Manhattan, and they're working while they're in the Uber, too. 2 times in the scene
Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations
- ▶ 49:06 Kunal Shah Uh, so I built a simple framework, which is sounds simple, but most people still don't use it is let's say I, I asked you that, what do you think is the efficiency score of booking a cab through Uber on 10 or versus the old method that… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:12:56 Kunal Shah Is Uber a startup or a big company?
Laurie Santos: The Pursuit of Happiness
- ▶ 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,…
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- ▶ 1:57:04 Balaji Srinivasan Less trivially, you can print out food by hitting a thing on Uber eats or grab.
#113 Sarah Tavel: The Value of Intellectual Rigor
- ▶ 20:54 Sarah Tavel It works a lot for companies that have more local businesses like an Uber, but there's a corresponding weakness to both of those types of organizations for the decentralized org.
- ▶ 44:49 Sarah Tavel You know, it's such a beautiful case study in a way, because Postmates was, um, recently acquired by Uber, uh, incredible team.
#98 Sahil Lavingia: Observing the Present
- ▶ 14:32 Sahil Lavingia So if you're not there, Uber, you know, it's a different, the way they think about you might be a little bit different. 2 times in the scene
#81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk
- ▶ 11:36 Jason Calacanis Uh, so an outlier like an Uber, for the people who are in the seed round, paid off somewhere in the range of 4000 to 5000 X, not percent, X. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:31 Jason Calacanis You picked Uber, and Thumbtack, and Robinhood, and Wealthfront, and, you know, Com, and then I look at them, and I'm like, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:49 Jason Calacanis So, you know, when you asked Bill Gurley early on about Uber, and they built, and he built models, he wasn't just looking at the cab business. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:07 Jason Calacanis When you saw Travis sell all his Uber shares, I wasn't surprised. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:49 Jason Calacanis What about the 10 companies that tried to compete with Uber and Lyft who are no longer here?
- ▶ 41:34 Jason Calacanis And in fact, Uber pitched out one of those, and three of the 21 people at that event invested.
- ▶ 45:52 Jason Calacanis Uber's one of them. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:12 Jason Calacanis So the Uber Eats DoorDash price war is still concerning to me.
- ▶ 53:51 Jason Calacanis We're going to see sophisticated investors, which will be like, you take a course on private company investing, and you're going to see Uber drivers or Postmates delivery people or HR people working in LinkedIn investing in those…
- ▶ 55:17 Jason Calacanis What if the Uber drivers could have said, let me buy a share of Uber. 3 times in the scene
#77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future
- ▶ 44:06 Mike Maples Jr. Well, Uber's tried that before, but they're doing it with black cars and not people sharing rides.
#72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
- ▶ 1:36:23 Neil Pasricha Be an Uber driver.
#63 Hugh Howey: Winning at the Self-publishing Game
- ▶ 28:33 Hugh Howey A robot, basically, that can go earn money by running Uber routes.
#54 Jason Fried: Doing the Enough Thing
- ▶ 24:18 Jason Fried Um, I think like things like companies like Uber is an example. 3 times in the scene
#51 Celeste Headlee: The Dying Art of Conversation
- ▶ 45:01 Celeste Headlee It doesn't matter if it's a simple chat with somebody, with your Uber driver.
#45 Dan Kluger: Taking Time to Get It Right
- ▶ 51:03 Dan Kluger And, and paying him to walk around the farmer's market for two hours collecting vegetables, and the best strawberries he can get, and the best herbs, and then paying for an Uber to bring it over here, and then unpack everything.
#44 Barbara Coloroso: The Kids Are Worth It
- ▶ 1:18:56 Shane Parrish My parents always had this rule, which I think we might not even need anymore because of the likes of Uber and stuff, but their rule was you can call me anytime, anywhere, no questions asked, and we'll come get you. 2 times in the scene
#40 Ben Thompson: Thriving in a Digital World
- ▶ 55:30 Ben Thompson Well, or maybe you're gonna take an Uber, or maybe you're gonna ride a bus, or maybe you're gonna
- ▶ 1:16:54 Ben Thompson Like once you're funding an Uber at like billions of dollars, but to me, it's a completely different. 2 times in the scene
#32 Patrick Collison: Earning Your Stripes
- ▶ 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.
#20 Marc Garneau: The Future of Transportation
- ▶ 47:31 Marc Garneau Je vois le développement de nouveaux modes de transport comme Uber. 5 times in the scene
#18 Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher
- ▶ 0:25 Shane Parrish He's invested in more than a hundred companies, including Uber,
- ▶ 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,
#13 Pedro Domingos: The Rise of The Machines
- ▶ 56:51 Pedro Domingos It's yet another thing to be, for example, Uber, right? 3 times in the scene
#7 Venkatesh Rao: The Three Types of Decision Makers
- ▶ 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?
- ▶ 53:40 Venkatesh Rao Another is Uber. 3 times in the scene
#5 Chris Dixon: The State of Venture Capital
- ▶ 12:26 Shane Parrish And the valuations for some of these companies, I mean, before they, the rumored valuations, before they become public, like Uber at fifty billion or something, what do you see as the implications and second order effects of this? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:38 Chris Dixon So, you know, like if you look at like, you know, Travis who founded Uber, you know, he had been involved in, I think he started two companies before and, you know, had a long track record and people, you know, and he had varied levels of…
#4 Jason Zweig: Elevate Your Financial IQ
- ▶ 46:54 Shane Parrish So you have like Uber, which is purported to have a fifty billion dollar valuation and losing