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Tony Hawk inspiring us for 72 minutes straight Sep 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:33 Sam Parr Or if you look at like Uber's early pitch deck, it's like, if this goes well, and like the number was like, 30 or 40 or fifty million dollars a year or something like that.

Elon’s wildest interview yet — our reaction Feb 18, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:07 Sam Parr So inflection points means a tech inflection, meaning everyone has a smartphone and thus we all have GPSs, therefore new businesses can launch like Uber because of it.

Scott Galloway: Why I'm selling my American stocks Feb 16, 2026 · 10 mentions

The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of Jan 19, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 30:54 Shaan Puri He had worked at the Uber self-driving car team, and he took me to this little garage, and he had this, like, golf cart that he had rigged into.
  • ▶ 40:24 Sam Parr Or it could be, why does Uber exist? 2 times in the scene

Ideas That Sound Illegal (But Print Money Anyway) Nov 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:53 Sheel Mohnot One interesting one, uh, that I did not, like a new business, like as, as crazy as Airbnb and Uber were, I think

I Failed 12 Times Before Making My First Million (Here's Every Failure) Nov 19, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 3:25 Shaan Puri Back then, there was no Uber Eats, no DoorDash, and we just looked like bums who couldn't afford a restaurant.
  • ▶ 18:44 Sam Parr I applied at Uber. 3 times in the scene

How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B Oct 13, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:12 Rick Marini Grindr was created, founded by a guy named Joel Simkai about 15 years ago, and Joel, um, is a gay man who wanted the ability to create an app to find other gay men, GPS-enabled, kind of like Uber, right? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 53:51 Jeff Bonforte I did my first deal with Travis from Uber.

The App That’ll Be Bigger Than TikTok Oct 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:10 Shaan Puri He's like, ChatGPT is just a tool you use yourself, and same thing with the image creators, and same thing with almost all of the tools are still single player, but the internet has showed us that, like, all the most powerful apps, they're…

The man who made a billion off blueberries Sep 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:41 Shaan Puri If I invested in Denzel before he became Denzel, that's like, you know, you know how Jason Calacanis is like always saying he's the fourth investor at Uber?

This guy made Millions by inventing the $1 Menu Sep 10, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 37:14 Sam Parr And, uh, like they, for years, they did this thing where instead of giving you like Uber for your new ride, if you referred someone to a new ride, they give you 10 dollars. 2 times in the scene

Business as a sport, Surge AI, and Waymo vs. Robotaxi Jun 25, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 44:49 Shaan Puri The next one is labor, so right now there's three and a half million truck drivers alone, let alone all of the, like, Uber and taxi drivers, and you're just not gonna need that job. 2 times in the scene

The Side Hustle King: “I’m making $8K/DAY from easy businesses” Jun 18, 2025 · 1 mention

How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents) Jun 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:30 Shaan Puri So whether it was investing in companies early, you got, you know, you were part of a portfolio that had Uber, had Twitter, had, you know, tons of hits, and you were early at CAA to the internet trend.

How the smartest founders are winning in AI Jun 4, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:00:47 Shaan Puri You know, the fact that basically Uber was like the big, Uber was like the biggest winner basically during that, like that era when we, when we launched and Uber was like physical world interaction. 3 times in the scene

How Nick Saban’s Side Hustle Might Make Him a Billionaire Apr 28, 2025 · 1 mention

5 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas) Apr 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:21 Steph Smith Waymo's are already taking up 20% of Uber rides in Austin, and so this stuff can, like, move pretty quickly.

From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+ Apr 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 59:16 Shaan Puri And then you're like, I kind of went over here to try to build my own empire, and you're like, the smart thing would have been to just join Facebook, or invest in Uber, or what, and you gave me a couple of quick examples.

7 Wild Business Ideas for this $3 Trillion Dollar Frontier Apr 7, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:55 Sam Parr So it was Airbnb and Uber and Lyft were the winners, and then there was a bunch of derivative things like Airbnb for garages or, or, you know, or for storage. 2 times in the scene

5 Conversations that broke our frames this week Mar 12, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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…
  • ▶ 1:06:17 Shaan Puri It's before, before DoorDash and Uber Eats, but we like create a website.

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 insane story of Blake Scholl: the high school dropout who’s building supersonic jets Feb 11, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 44:38 Sam Parr They're like the Uber Eats and DoorDash drivers. 3 times in the scene

Five $10M+ Ideas (from a guy who's done it 3 times) Jan 10, 2025 · 3 mentions

Investing Wisdom from Nassim Taleb, plus ChatGPT Questions That Will Change Your Life Jan 3, 2025 · 1 mention

The #1 Most Underrated Quality in an Entrepreneur Dec 18, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:12 Sam Parr Well, the background is Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber. 2 times in the scene

$100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities For 2025 Nov 26, 2024 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 47:57 Furqan Rydhan And, you know, I think Uber was an example like that. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:15:07 Furqan Rydhan When we showed Uber first, by the way, internally, Uber was like, nah, I don't, I don't think kids are going to do this. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:15:48 Shaan Puri Now you can build Uber. 2 times in the scene

Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom Nov 11, 2024 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 21:47 Ryan Petersen I mean, you show up, you call, now you go to China, you call Uber or DD or DD, I guess.
  • ▶ 50:48 Shaan Puri He goes, he bought AdWords for the keyword, um, Uber promo and just put his own promo code there and just got a bunch of cheap Uber rides for himself that way. 10 times in the scene

3 Killer Businesses Hidden in Plain Sight Nov 4, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:58 Sam Parr You know, we talk about inflections and how, like, you know, the iPhone was invented, which had all these ramifications, including a GPS being there, which now means that Uber has the ability to exist.

The guy who gets paid $80K/yr to do nothing Oct 2, 2024 · 1 mention

10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024 Sep 13, 2024 · 3 mentions

The Top 0.1% Of Ideas I've Stumbled Upon On The Internet Aug 31, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 27:09 George Mack Or if you're out and about and you need an Uber, like, fuck, I can't get an Uber. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:29 George Mack So he used to obsess over that, and I remember I went to Austin Airport, and as you go up, to get an Uber, you've got to go through, like, three different car parks, and your phone signal goes out, and you're sweating. 2 times in the scene

He Sold His Company For $15M, Then Got A Job At McDonald’s Aug 7, 2024 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 7:12 Sam Parr And so he was like, dude, I'm going to drive for Uber. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:32 Shaan Puri Maybe it would be driving Uber.
  • ▶ 29:39 Sam Parr Now this ad basically shows like when you're driving Uber and things like that, you feel shitty.

10 AI Business Ideas From The Queen of AI ft. Sarah Guo Jul 24, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 57:05 Sam Parr Uber, and we had Sidecar back then, where it was like, holy crap, we're gonna get into a stranger's car, and this is so exciting, this is so new, and, and you'd go to hackathons, and people were working on, like, meal delivery services,…

We Bet This App Idea Could Be Bigger Than Reddit Jul 19, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 55:34 Shaan Puri Dude, you keep saying it, and it actually destroys the value that we had in finding them early, because it's kind of like Jason Calacanis, the third investor in Uber. 2 times in the scene

3 Startup Ideas: Mouse Jigglers, Employee Monitoring Softwares and Photoshop Copycats Jul 12, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 33:54 Shaan Puri And it's so obvious the first time you get in one, like I had to take an Uber back and literally it was comical. 3 times in the scene

How I Made My First $1M - The Andrew Wilkinson Story Jul 5, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:07 Sam Parr So do you guys remember when, um, uh, Uber eats and DoorDash and what were the other ones?

3 Things You Need To Outperform 99% Of Entrepreneurs Jun 21, 2024 · 1 mention

This $50M/Yr Side Hustle Is On Track To Make $1 Billion By 2030 Jun 3, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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… 2 times in the scene

How Gary Vee Predicts The Next Facebook (Every Time) May 22, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:50 Sam Parr Dude, that one would have been a bigger one for you than, uh, Uber, too.

CEOs Pay Him $10,000 Per Appointment May 8, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:34 Shaan Puri We've all been a part of things early on where without that user contributing, without them being a part of it, without them, them actually participating, whether it's Airbnb or it's the drivers on Uber, like for them to not get anything…

I Spent 7 Days With The Richest Men In Texas Apr 12, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:08 Shaan Puri There's like a 10 minute Uber ride before we're going to meet somebody else.

The Man Who Owns 1% Of ALL Bitcoin Mar 27, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 58:46 Anthony Pompliano What they figured out is, uh, similar to like Uber, where you press a button and a car shows up, all of these light industrial manufacturing facilities

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

My Mother-in-Law Started a $1M Side Hustle In Her 50's Feb 14, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:41 Shaan Puri The biggest hotel company in the world owns no hotels like Airbnb or Uber.

What Stock Would Warren Buffett Buy If He Started Over In 2024? Feb 12, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:00 Sam Parr Eight months ago, I was driving Uber, and, and they're like, and I'm still driving an Uber because I don't get paid. 2 times in the scene

How I Went From Intern To CEO In 6 Months (My First Startup Gig) Feb 5, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 31:09 Sam Parr So Google, uh, whoever's listening, you guys can Google Uber, uh, seed deck. 2 times in the scene

Everything I Learned From 48 Hours With MrBeast (The +$1B Mindset) (#539) Jan 10, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 46:14 Shaan Puri And then what I'm going to do is invest in Uber and make a hundred million dollars. 2 times in the scene

How We Got Our First 100 Customers (No Bulls**t, Specific Details) (#534) Dec 22, 2023 · 1 mention

The 2023 Milly Awards (#531) Dec 18, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:14 Andrew Wilkinson At the end of the day, you need to order DoorDash and Uber and do basic things, so it didn't work for me, but I had this moment where I was going through one of these cycles, and this was in

If I Had To Make $1 Billion... Here’s The Business I Would Start Dec 8, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:08 Shaan Puri Uber is, is sort of praised for the way it just like brute force its way into different cities and actually like built a huge global brand.

Our 2020 Predictions For OpenAI Came True… Here’s What’s Next (#508) Oct 17, 2023 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 18:51 Shaan Puri One of the ideas he had was he, he goes, um, you know how Travis Kalanick has left Uber
  • ▶ 18:59 Shaan Puri So he's like, you know, I'm going to create these restaurants that are just built for Uber Eats, built for DoorDash, and there'll be delivery only.
  • ▶ 39:40 Shaan Puri I feel like you spotted, this was your Uber angel investment, right?
  • ▶ 1:05:12 Sam Parr And what I did was I gave him a thousand dollars and he gave me 10,000 dollars in Uber credit. 10 times in the scene

10 AI Startup Ideas in 43 Minutes (#506) Oct 12, 2023 · 3 mentions

Jesse Itzler's Exact Playbook For Creating HIT AFTER HIT (#504) Oct 5, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 44:39 Shaan Puri I might be wrong about that, but it was something that some- Including, uh, Garrett Camp, the guy from Uber, he created, he tried to do an Uber for Jets, uh, that didn't work out, right? 2 times in the scene

How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company Sep 28, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:16 Jason Yanowitz First off, remember when everyone started creating like the Uber for X, like the Uber for whatever.

This $3B Founder Is The Next Elon Musk (#499) Sep 26, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:04 Brett Adcock It's a lot easier to drive an Uber in this condition than be in these facilities.

Favorite Finds: McDonald's Employee Goes Viral, Pelosi's Finances & How To Close A Deal (#498) Sep 22, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:29 Sam Parr So he did a talk, I believe it was about Uber and regulation and like some of the surprising things they found. 2 times in the scene

Brainstorming ChatGPT Business Ideas With A Billionaire | ft. Dharmesh Shah (#438) Mar 30, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:27 Dharmesh Shah Like when you put a camera on a phone, when you put a GPS device on a phone, a bunch of consumer apps like Uber and others came up and that was awesome, right?
  • ▶ 29:58 Dharmesh Shah Like when you put a camera on a phone, when you put a GPS device on a phone, a bunch of consumer apps like Uber and others, uh, came up and that was awesome.

How Dave Ramsey Built A $300M/Year Media Empire (#428) Mar 9, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:48 Sam Parr And they basically, it's a, it was publicly trained until recently, but the reason they started this company was they like cloned Amazon and all these other companies, Zappos, Uber, things like that.

How To Grow A Small Agency Into A Billion Dollar Company (#414) Feb 2, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:21 Sam Parr He's like, he has a birthday party coming up on Saturday and we're taking some like new weird version of 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…

BREAKING: Shaan Sells the Milk Road - A Conversation With the Buyers Dec 17, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 2:45 Shaan Puri And he's the guy who did the same thing with Uber and Lyft and has like, you know, Uber credits for life and Lyft credits for life. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:39 Shaan Puri That's how you got the Uber credits and all that.
  • ▶ 1:32:27 Shaan Puri I was like, alright, I'll see you later, and you went to go get your Uber.

How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388) Nov 22, 2022 · 2 mentions

Ranking The Best And Worst Businesses To Start w/ Billionaire Investor Andrew Wilkinson (#386) Nov 17, 2022 · 1 mention

5 Business Ideas With High Demand & Low Supply | Start These In 2022 (#374) Oct 13, 2022 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 4:00 Shaan Puri And basically it was like a cloud, what a cloud kitchen is today, but this was back, you know, more than 10 years ago now where there was no DoorDash, there was no Uber Eats at the time. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:48 Steph Smith And also Uber Eats will have three or so items at the top of like our most popular items. 2 times in the scene

Asking A Billionaire Investor How To Prepare For The Economic Collapse (#371) Oct 6, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 27:53 Sam Parr And like these whole, this whole like idea of like a Tim Ferriss investing 15,000 dollars in Uber and making fifty million dollars, that can never happen with us.
  • ▶ 37:42 Shaan Puri They would just bring out loads of food and then he'd walk away at the end, like an Uber.

Ryan Holiday Reveals How Much Best Selling Authors Make, Crazy Peter Thiel Stories & More (#370) Oct 4, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:59 Sam Parr He's arguably like just guessing maybe he's worth a 150 to two hundred fifty million dollars based off of his Shopify and Uber and seed investments.

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 Roger Federer Became The First Tennis Billionaire (#367) Sep 27, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 27:55 Shaan Puri but like he also, because he was Tim Ferriss, got to invest in Shopify and Uber and like probably made hundreds of millions of dollars off of his Uber investment over a hundred million dollars, my guess. 2 times in the scene

How Successful Startups Got Their First 1000 Customers (Uber, Product Hunt & More) (#362) Sep 15, 2022 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 15:18 Sam Parr Um, and I, I've got friends that are early at Uber and friends that are still at Uber and a lot of people don't know this, but I, they might consider him a founder, but the first or second employee was this Mexican guy. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:54 Sam Parr None of us are going to work there because I'm too busy running some upon, but it's basically like a car service. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:32 Shaan Puri It's very hard to have a story that compares to Uber and Pinterest, but
  • ▶ 32:12 Shaan Puri I have a blog post about this actually, like, 10 throwback, uh, landing pages, and it's like, go look at the first version of Airbnb, of Uber, of Snapchat, of all these things, and then you'll be like, oh, why are we trying to perfect this…
  • ▶ 59:22 Shaan Puri He started, like, an Uber for bodyguards, right?

6 Hilarious Business Ideas That Could Make You $1,000,000 in 2022 (#351) Aug 23, 2022 · 2 mentions

3 Profitable Business Ideas You Should Start in 2022 Mar 10, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 21:28 Sam Parr He was doing that for Uber drivers, and uh, I don't actually know, I, I see him everywhere, but I don't know how the business, what happened with the business. 4 times in the scene

Drunk Business Ideas That Could Make You Millions Mar 8, 2022 · 1 mention

$1M By 19, $100M+ By 35 -- Here's How He Did It Jan 26, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:45 Sam Parr Then I got to go and panic and get a job and start like Ubering.

Solana Billionaires, MFM Goes Viral on TikTok, Right to Be Forgotten, and More Jan 4, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:34 unnamed speaker Because you're competing with like Uber and Lyft and shit, like the ad spend, it's just too hard.

Hasan Minhaj - Comedy, Netflix, Haters, & Money Dec 15, 2021 · 2 mentions

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