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Bilbao: Kalanick needed extreme aggression to succeed in marketplace businesses
“When people give Kalanick shit, Over some of the stuff that happened in culture they fail to understand how aggressive and how demanding the industry is and the marketplace business in that regard is that you had to have someone extremely aggressive to be able…”
Mikesell: Uber was more innovative under Travis Kalanick
“And this was in the Travis Kalanick days, which, in which Uber was, I think, a lot more innovative and a lot more willing to try new things, right?”
Khazzam: Longtime big-company top performers rarely fit early-stage startups
“Most people who are eight players at really big companies and have been there for a long time are probably not a fit.”
Casey Ellis refined Bugcrowd's pitch by testing it on Uber drivers
“Literally every time I got in the car, I do this. And this is how I refined my pitch. Cause it's like, if I can get this out, have them show some sort of buying intent. Not confuse them or trip them up in the process. The more consistently I can do that, the m…”
Why Uber's open scheduling model causes driver churn in small towns
“On the driver's side, when you go into a small town, you have, if drivers drive anytime that they want, like with Uber and some of these other platforms if it's a Monday afternoon and you have a hundred cars on the road like drivers get bus street and they chu…”
Srugo: All $10B+ mobile-first companies were created between 2008 and 2012
“If you look at the period from 2008 to 2012, that is when all
Of the ten billion dollar plus mobile first companies were created. Uber, Lyft, Postmates, Spotify, Venmo, WhatsApp, they all were created during that time.”
Argyle's first MVP generated fake screenshot certificates for Uber drivers
“The very first version of the Argyle service was a website that an Uber driver just logged into, and they took a screenshot of, like, this sort of fake resume we would build. It would generate from their Uber profile data, but it would just sort of put, like, …”