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“OpenAI’s Model Hacked Us” - Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf
- ▶ 39:30 Matt Turck Sort of the Uber phenomenon, right? 2 times in the scene
The Biggest AI Deployment Nobody Talks About | Samsara CEO Sanjit Biswas
- ▶ 22:23 Sanjit Biswas You've seen them in Ubers, right?
State of Enterprise AI 2026: Aaron Levie on Tokenmaxxing, Rise of Headless, and AI-Proofing Your Job
- ▶ 9:08 Matt Turck And I guess a couple of weeks ago, Uber CTO was, um, talking about the same kind of thing.
- ▶ 22:26 Matt Turck Venture capital actually does have a utility in the, in the world, like subsidizing Ubers and then the subsidizing tokens.
Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
- ▶ 4:32 Benedict Evans And if I, you know, I install Uber, like which cloud does Uber use? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:38 Benedict Evans So people are having a go at Apple that you haven't got any LLMs and Craig says, well, we don't have Uber or YouTube either.
- ▶ 32:16 Benedict Evans There's a sort of almost like a cliche that people always talk about, you know, that the Mark Andreessen software is eating the world thing of Uber and Airbnb, that 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:43 Benedict Evans No, I mean, a sort of a micro observation is that, you know, it's back to the, the GDP eval thing of like the, the finance, New York finance professor who tried to estimate the TAM for Uber by saying, he said he'd value Uber because this… 3 times in the scene
The End of GPU Scaling? Compute & The Agent Era — Tim Dettmers (Ai2) & Dan Fu (Together AI)
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on What Really Matters Now
- ▶ 59:54 Benedict Evans And then step three is Airbnb and Uber. 2 times in the scene
Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop
- ▶ 47:18 Francois Chollet Uh, we really, we really, you know, hired random people who went through, uh, a service, uh, that exists, uh, to, to basically just, you know, hire people for scientific testing, and we ended up with a pretty diverse crowd, like we had,…
Why This Ex-Meta Leader is Rethinking AI Infrastructure | Lin Qiao, CEO, Fireworks AI
- ▶ 0:04 Matt Turck Today, my guest is Lin Shao, the CEO of Fireworks AI, an LLM inference platform that enables companies like Cursor, Uber, and DoorDash to build AI product experiences on top of hundreds of open source models like DeepSeek, Quen, Lama, and…
- ▶ 21:08 Lin Qiao Um, so, uh, another example is that we work very closely with DoorDash, um, and Uber, uh, and Samsung.
From Selfie to Studio: Captions CEO on AI Video for 10M Creators
- ▶ 45:53 Gaurav Misra Uh, just like you see like an Uber delivery kind of coming close, you see your video being generated.
The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
- ▶ 29:20 Amjad Masad And I called an Uber.
Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy
- ▶ 13:08 Matt Turck Can you, can you maybe compare and contrast, uh, if I'm a data engineer, do I do different things if I'm at Facebook or Meta or Google, uh, or Uber versus, uh, what I would do in a company outside of Silicon Valley?
State of AI 2024: Frontier Models, AI Geopolitics, Robotics | Nathan Benaich, Air Street Capital
- ▶ 47:36 Nathan Benaich Kids don't, kids use Uber now, they don't drive, but next generation, you're like, I don't want somebody driving me at all.
Superintelligence, Bubbles And Big Bets: AI Investing in 2024 | Matt Turck & Aman Kabeer, FirstMark
- ▶ 46:01 Matt Turck If you think about the next paradigm shift, which was mobile and cloud, uh, then you, you, you saw the rise of like the Ubers and DoorDash. 2 times in the scene
Can AI Infrastructure Work Like Magic? Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal
- ▶ 55:02 Erik Bernhardsson And, and like, you know, similar to mobile, like I, I've been asking myself, like, you know, what's the like sort of Uber or Spotify or Instagram of AI?
AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
- ▶ 27:09 Richard Socher Like, the telcos didn't make a ton of money from Uber having amazing access to, you know, wireless communication everywhere and building an app on top of it, right?
How ClickHouse powers Netflix, Uber and Spotify’s Analytics | Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse
- ▶ 2:05 Aaron Katz So ClickHouse Inc., now Delaware Corporation with headquarters in Silicon Valley exists, venture-backed startup, and we are taking this very powerful analytical database that's used by companies like Spotify and Netflix and Disney and Uber…
Is AI a platform shift or a paradigm shift? With Benedict Evans
- ▶ 20:26 Benedict Evans Uber is not a car company or a taxi company.
- ▶ 47:20 Benedict Evans And I, I puzzle about this because I think like taking desktop stuff and putting it smaller and vertical on an iPhone was useful even before you then get the native mobile stuff like Uber and TikTok and everything else.
The Race to Build the Ultimate AI Programmer | Poolside CTO Eiso Kant
Startup to Industry Standard: Lukas Biewald Explains How W&B Scaled MLOps for OpenAI, NVIDIA & More
- ▶ 24:31 Matt Turck And a standard, uh, way of thinking about the, you know, innovation curve, um, from, you know, like a valley and VC perspective is typically like the, the, the big tech, uh, companies, the Ubers of the world are the more sophisticated…
- ▶ 25:07 Lukas Biewald So it's not like, um, we only sell to like the Ubers and Apples
Building LlamaIndex: Jerry Liu on Scaling Retrieval-Augmented AI
- ▶ 2:11 Jerry Liu Um, so I started, um, uh, diving a little bit more into my machine learning journey, uh, as a machine learning engineer at Quora, uh, after a year, uh, then spent some time as a research scientist at Uber ATG, where, uh, one, I met my…
- ▶ 26:58 Jerry Liu Uh, we, we've seen people build, uh, these workflows at different settings from, for instance, like, uh, hacks on projects at startups, um, building, for instance, like, uh, track GPT, like, plugin over, like, your Slack or your Notion,…
Unlocking Data Observability with Monte Carlo's Barr Moses
- ▶ 0:56 Barr Moses Um, and actually I spent, you know, a good couple of months and, and, and hundreds of conversations with data teams from, you know, large companies like Uber and Netflix and Facebook to small startups, and basically asked them, like,…
Fireside Chat - Azeem Azhar (Author, The Exponential Age) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 12:57 Azeem Azhar If you're a Uber, a driver on Uber, while it's great for the consumer, the driver who is a participant and a stakeholder in that platform is totally commoditized and has no way of differentiating themselves in the market.
Fireside Chat: Aaron Katz (Co-Founder & CEO, ClickHouse) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 6:28 Aaron Katz You, you mentioned, I mentioned the Uber use case and that's an interesting one and we can talk, I'm sorry, eBay, but let's talk, Uber's another interesting use case where 8 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Ali Ghodsi (Founder & CEO, Databricks) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 0:36 Ali Ghodsi So Uber had just started Airbnb, you know, Twitter was in the early phases. 2 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: David Cancel (Founder & CEO, Drift) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 17:08 David Cancel The buyer doesn't care about just like when you search on Google or you do something on Uber, you do something on Facebook.
Fireside Chat Part II: Ben Horowitz (a16z) on Culture with Matt Turck (FirstMark) at Data Driven NYC
- ▶ 2:47 Matt Turck And, and related question is, is, um, is Uber or maybe WeWork, like are those cultures that are examples of culture that fail or cultural failures? 2 times in the scene
Human Intuition for Machines // Sam Anthony, Perceptive Automata (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 15:07 Sam Anthony They're waiting for an Uber, but
Fireside Chat: Mike Volpi, General Partner, Index Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 28:23 Mike Volpi And obviously entrepreneurs that have worked at companies that have used it at scale, um, Google, Facebook, Uber, Twitter, Airbnb, Pinterest, uh, et cetera, et cetera, definitely have an edge because they've actually, again, sort of…
Data Science Is A Literacy, Not A Job // Peter Wang, Anaconda (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 11:28 Peter Wang So these kinds of things, you wouldn't think, you wouldn't think some random app you gave some permission to, but we all saw this with the Strava stuff, with the Uber tracking data after you turned off the app.
Fireside Chat: Sarah Guo, General Partner at Greylock (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 21:03 Sarah Guo So like, I'd argue Uber is an ML company because they use it for demand management and pricing and everything else.
- ▶ 21:56 unnamed speaker Um, I, I see you're working a lot on AI security, which is an emerging field, and do you have any companies that work on GANs and adversarial networks because a smiley face now can cripple a self-driving car if you put it on a, on a sign,…
Optionality in Data Architecture // Justin Borgman, Starburst Data (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 16:37 Justin Borgman Uh, it is very much a community-driven project, so Airbnb, Uber, Netflix, uh, they all commit code to the project as well, and, and, uh, I think everyone benefits from that, so Uber, uh, uh, contributed a bunch of features around… 3 times in the scene
CI/CD for Machine Learning & AI // Dillon Erb, Paperspace (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 3:25 Dillon Erb Uber has Michelangelo.
Why Does The World Need Another Computer? // Anant Bhardwaj, Instabase (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 3:39 Anant Bhardwaj It's like when you use Uber, you don't use computers.
- ▶ 16:01 Anant Bhardwaj Like Uber or Airbnb, it's not that they made life convenient, but they also increased the supply of things. 2 times in the scene
VC Fireside Chat // Rebecca Lynn, Canvas Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 10:05 Rebecca Lynn And so an example is like an Uber ticket.
Reengineering Urban Transit // Daniel Ramot and Saar Golde, Via (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 1:57 Daniel Ramot But, um, it's on demand, um, so you, you, you book a ride on your smartphone, uh, pretty similar to Uber, Lyft, and so forth.
- ▶ 10:53 Saar Golde Um, we look at some of our competitors, specifically Uber, there's a paper published again, either late last year or earlier this year, showing how many miles they ride empty on average for every single passenger mile that they do, and…
Panel: Alternative Data in Financial Services (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 40:52 unnamed speaker There's very sophisticated developers and the Snapchats and the Ubers and the Tencents and others using our platforms.
Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 2:38 Jeff Glueck If you search in Uber or Tencent, Pinterest, and Snapchat, Samsung, Twitter, Garmin, these are among the 100,000 companies that now are using this technology set.
- ▶ 4:35 Jeff Glueck If you use Uber and you say, like, I, you know, please pick me up, uh, at the, you know, Regency Cinema in Tribeca and take me to the Starbucks on 27th street, rather than typing addresses, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:20 Jeff Glueck And then it's technology solutions like the ones that Uber and Samsung are doing.
The Uber Big Data Story // Praveen Murugesan, Uber (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 0:09 Praveen Murugesan So, uh, just a little bit about me, like, I've been with Uber about, like, over, just over two years, and, uh, like, when I joined Uber, I actually initially joined as an engineer in the, uh, data infrastructure team. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:55 Praveen Murugesan So, starting with Uber's mission, so I guess everyone knows about Uber, so we are in a transportation company, like, Uber's mission itself is to, like, uh, build transportation as reliable as, like, running water everywhere and for… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13 Praveen Murugesan So, when starting to build out, like, data infrastructure for Uber, it obviously starts with, like, understanding who our audience are, and then, like, what they really, like, need, uh, before we started out to, like, build out, like, uh,… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:20 Praveen Murugesan So, here's how Uber's infrastructure kind of started when I came into Uber, and for the scale at which we are running at that point, this was something that actually worked, so it wasn't, I wouldn't say it was like a bad architecture, so…
- ▶ 5:26 Praveen Murugesan Um, so it was originally written with, like, Python, Celery, and, like, some, like, uh, original technologies which Uber, people at Uber were very familiar with. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:15 Praveen Murugesan So, I'll start with, like, uh, UDK, which we call the Uber Developer Kit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:56 Praveen Murugesan So this is another big area of interest within Uber. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:44 Praveen Murugesan This is something that we've done heavily at Uber, and mostly we've taken approach of, like, filling in the gaps, and not always, like, you know, going off and starting to build a new thing, like, as such.
Venture Capital Investor Panel: Investing in Big Data (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 16:34 Matt Turck That, ah, you know, was, was paralyzed by, ah, Innovator's Dilemma, that type of thing, and if you fast forward to today, and now all the little AI startups are essentially competing against Google, and Facebook, and Uber, and, ah, you…
A Kafka-Powered Real-Time Streaming Platform // Neha Narkhede, Confluent [FirstMark's Data Driven]
- ▶ 10:13 Neha Narkhede Since we open sourced it, you know, roughly five years ago, Kafka is used in thousands of companies worldwide, from Uber, and LinkedIn, and Netflix, all the way to traditional enterprises like eBay, and PayPal, and Cisco, and Goldman Sachs.
A Fireside Chat with Benchmark General Partner Peter Fenton (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 10:03 Peter Fenton What's the proclivity of the founder to micromanage, and so all these things, I think, you know, lend themselves to an individual having a very deep relationship, so that's how the firm's been built, and it has this, this wonderful…
- ▶ 14:33 Peter Fenton So, which, but what you needed was not a Google dweebish engineer like what you see in, in some things like, ah, well, I'm not going to pick on Kubernetes, um, but, but, ah, you needed as a leader, an entrepreneur, and, and, and Spencer…
- ▶ 28:34 Peter Fenton So, in an application company, it turns out, I think, that the at-scale providers, companies like New Relic, or people who are already moving terabytes of data, or Uber, they can apply the technologies for machine learning, um, and, and,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:57 Peter Fenton Oh my god, and then they, like, you had, like, Hibstomatic, or so, so, so there's this, like, five-year gestation period, or how long did the phone have to have GPS before you could actually launch a business model like Uber?
- ▶ 42:16 Peter Fenton You know, Uber and Didi. 2 times in the scene
Problem Solving With Geospatial Data // Javier de la Torre, CartoDB (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 4:34 Javier de la Torre Now, if you look at, you know, like, someone like Greenpoint or Williamsburg, you know, and see what is going to be affected of this, I mean, the first thing that you can think of is, like, Lyft and Uber are going to have a huge ride there. 2 times in the scene
The Role of Data in Pluralsight's Technology Learning Platform // Aaron Skonnard, Pluralsight
- ▶ 32:46 Aaron Skonnard Think of it like the Uber connection into small deals like that.
Joseph Essas, OpenTable // Mining Diner Talk (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 25:32 Joseph Essas Sort of like Uber, if you will.
Jason Tan, Sift Science // Data Driven #26 // April 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Joe Reisinger, Premise // Data Driven NYC 21 // Dec 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 2:33 Joe Reisinger Um, and of course, you know, the Uber, uh, surge pricing kept me from getting home. 3 times in the scene
Panel Discussion // NYC Data Business Meetup // May 2013
- ▶ 7:32 Alex Hawkinson Or for security, my favorite example is sort of an Uber of off-duty cops.
"The Business of Data" Panel // October 2011
- ▶ 19:10 Joe Fernandez I'm, I'm really excited about companies like, ah, Uber and Zarly and Airbnb that are kind of taking the infrastructure of online and the data around that and applying it to real world problems that, not just problems that, ah,…