Uber

“In fact, I told the founder of Uber camp years ago when we were burning man together, that it was a stupid idea because I just didn't understand Uber.”

“Particularly in the time where you have all these tools like you know, vibe coding, lovable, so on, so forth, where everyone can create the product. You can, you know, it, it's a great time in the sense that, you know, if you ever, you know, if you were ever t…”

“And so there's an idea there that I worked on with a buddy from Uber that we actually have revisited, and like I just said, I'll circle back on that and kind of explain why, but we're gonna be releasing that as like a side quest in the next few weeks.”

“Uber was very big about, like, time to cut prices. Like, we were, every six months, we were lowering the price, because that's a moat, you know, makes people, you don't want to get undercut”

“So I think going vertical specific is like, is, is totally crazy. I mean, all my competitors should go ahead and do that, but I think that it makes more sense to be kind of general for this. Like Uber isn't rides for a specific use case. It's just rides.”

“A lesson I learned at Uber, which is if someone on the support line is like exhibiting extreme emotion, Whether it's positive emotion or negative emotion, that is actually a good indicator that you're onto something. Like, if you can make a customer so mad tha…”