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Smith: Waymo already accounts for 20% of Austin Uber rides
“Waymo's are already taking up 20% of Uber rides in Austin”
Steph Smith Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 15:21 5 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas)
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Puri: Uber defied SF cease-and-desist threatening $5,000 daily fines
“Then they literally broke actual laws. It was like running and they were, they got a cease and desist from San Francisco saying, Hey, for every day, your operational, you owe us 5000 dollars per day. And they just kept going.”
Shaan Puri Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 17:07 How Successful Startups Got Their First 1000 Customers (Uber, Product Hunt & More) (#362)
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Puri: Tech Giants Took Nearly $1B in SF Lease Write-Downs Post-COVID
“There's two hundred million dollars of real estate impairments in the past year since COVID. It's almost a billion if you add in the lease related write downs from large companies like Salesforce, Dropbox, Uber, PayPal, Zendesk, just getting rid of their real …”
Shaan Puri May 20, 2021 ▶ 57:05 How Course Businesses Work & How Irish Pubs as a Service is Making Millions | My First Million #183
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Sam Parr: Uber's 2008 seed deck framed $30M profit as realistic
“So in 2008, Uber was just getting started. They're raising only 200,000 dollars. And on slide 20, They have a deck or a slide that says potential outcomes, and they say best case scenario becomes a market leader with over a billion dollars in annual revenue. R…”
Sam Parr Feb 5, 2024 ▶ 31:13 How I Went From Intern To CEO In 6 Months (My First Startup Gig)
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Johnson: Braintree built Uber's original invisible checkout payment infrastructure
“We helped Uber do their no the payment experience where you get in the car, you arrive at your destination, you leave the car, no exchange of payment information, no signing of receipts, no printing out receipts.”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 5:26 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
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Uber's founders outsourced early coding and hired Ryan Graves via Twitter
“The Uber founders, Travis and Garrett, they didn't work on it full time. Uber was not a project they were willing to do. They just literally tweeted out, Hey, we need a general manager. And random guy named Ryan Graves was like, I'm a hustler. I'll do it. And …”
Shaan Puri Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 16:19 How Successful Startups Got Their First 1000 Customers (Uber, Product Hunt & More) (#362)
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Uber's early codebase was built by a Mexican agency using Spanish
“The early versions of Uber were written with a ton of Spanish in the code. And so my friends who were early there, they told me, yeah, like, I forget this guy's name. Do you know who I'm talking about?”
Sam Parr Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 15:36 How Successful Startups Got Their First 1000 Customers (Uber, Product Hunt & More) (#362)
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