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How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B Oct 13, 2025 · 4 mentions

7 Wild Business Ideas for this $3 Trillion Dollar Frontier Apr 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:58 Sam Parr That is not something that Brian Chesky or, uh, you know, Travis Kalanick would have done in

5 Conversations that broke our frames this week Mar 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:02 Shaan Puri Because I was just in my bunker, just doing my thing, but it was terrible because he's like, you know, I turned down that lunch meeting with, uh, Travis when he was starting Uber, and I, uh, you know, I was too egotistical to take that job…

We talk to the guy who knows Silicon Valley’s darkest secrets Feb 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:58 Nick Bilton Uh, and, and then had this, like, libertarian idealism to him that is no different to, like, Travis Kalanick when he's building, building Uber and, you know, all these other people in Silicon Valley, and he decides that drugs should be…

The #1 Most Underrated Quality in an Entrepreneur Dec 18, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 5:58 Shaan Puri One, um, uh, Travis Kalanick is kind of like this. 4 times in the scene

Q&A: Gut punches, favorite guests, plus advice for life Oct 30, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:43 Shaan Puri Or like, you know, we've told the story about Travis Kalanick being the number two or three Wii tennis player in the world.

This $50M/Yr Side Hustle Is On Track To Make $1 Billion By 2030 Jun 3, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 47:35 Shaan Puri Like, this guy should be in the tech world, and he recruited him from there, and this is where, like, you know, they were, there's a lot of the guys who invested in Uber early on, like Garrett and, um, Travis were in the room, and they…

5 Genius Business Tactics Turning Broke Authors Into Millionaires Mar 4, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:08 Shaan Puri And then I would proactively plan and like set it up so that Travis Kalanick came for the weekend and stayed with him.

Everything I Learned From 48 Hours With MrBeast (The +$1B Mindset) (#539) Jan 10, 2024 · 1 mention

Our 2020 Predictions For OpenAI Came True… Here’s What’s Next (#508) Oct 17, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:51 Shaan Puri One of the ideas he had was he, he goes, um, you know how Travis Kalanick has left Uber

Behind The Scenes of Selling My Company For Millions | Suli Ali (#410) Jan 24, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:01:25 Suleman "Suli" Ali People, uh, there's so many things that people will, like, admonish privately, but, uh, but kind of celebrate publicly, like Travis, the Uber CEO, when he heard that some company, some VC fund was investing in Lyft, he stopped what he was…

Controversial Business Lessons From Napoleon, Edison, & Hitler (#369) Oct 1, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:10 Sam Parr Like, and I, and I've heard stories about Travis Kalanick at Uber.

How Successful Startups Got Their First 1000 Customers (Uber, Product Hunt & More) (#362) Sep 15, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:19 Shaan Puri So for example, um, the Uber founders, Travis and, um, Garrett, they didn't work on it full time.

Near Death Accidents and Hitting $1B ARR with Brian Halligan, Founder and Exec Chairman of HubSpot Oct 14, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:57 unnamed speaker I know Travis had, had an exit, but I don't think that they were like rich Gary through stumble upon, right?

Why Direct-to-Consumer Companies Are Awesome to Own | My First Million #217 Sep 8, 2021 · 1 mention

A Discussion on Sam & Shaan's Recent Investments | My First Million #195 Jun 30, 2021 · 1 mention

How a $25 Million a Year Sweepstakes Business Works | My First Million #193 Jun 23, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:06 Sam Parr So, uh, Travis Kalanick, before he started Uber, he had this thing called red swoosh. 3 times in the scene

Making Billions in Coworking & the Dark Side of Confidence | My First Million #190 Jun 11, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:22 Sam Parr When my friends talk about working with Travis, they're like, are you gonna go work at his new company?

Billionaire Marc Lore on What He Would Build Today and Future of Ecommerce | My First Million #186 May 26, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:03:01 Shaan Puri And he goes, for example, Travis, before he started Uber, uh, you know, he had Red Swoosh, which was like a kind of tens of millions win.

Andrew Wilkinson On The Secretive Billionaire Who Acquired Burger King | My First Million #185 May 25, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:55 Sam Parr Uh, you know, Travis Kalanick kind of has it where they're just like, you're just, you're afraid of them in a way of like, they inspire me, but like, um, they, they can crush it.
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