Travis Kalanick

5 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 29, 2024 by Chris Power · said 37 times in 4 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Mar 29, 2024 positive
Insight
Power: Post-recession startups succeed due to founder pain thresholds, not asset pricing
“One of the reasons why the best companies have founded directly after recession has nothing to do with like pricing. It's just that you get people like Airbnb or Travis from Uber where they're just like, I have no other option. So my pain threshold is stupidly…”
Chris Power Mar 29, 2024 ▶ 39:44 Get Tesla Big | Chris Power, Hadrian · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Nov 29, 2025
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Tusk: Early Uber Advisory Equity Stake Reached $12M Valuation Following Funding Round
“And he said, oh, we just closed around your shares are worth twelve million dollars.”
Bradley Tusk Nov 29, 2025 ▶ 34:29 What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Nov 29, 2025 positive
Insight
Kalanick Mobilizing Uber Users Was a Historic Political Innovation
“If you have a product that people are really passionate about and you have the right means to mobilize them. You can turn your customers into political advocates and be big, powerful entrenched interests, right? Like I might've deployed that really well, and I…”
Bradley Tusk Nov 29, 2025 ▶ 1:08:10 What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Nov 29, 2025 positive
Opinion
Tusk: Bloomberg and Kalanick are the two smartest people he's worked with
“The two smartest people that I've ever worked with closely are Mike Bloomberg and Travis Kalanick, bar none.”
Bradley Tusk Nov 29, 2025 ▶ 1:06:21 What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Dec 13, 2025
Disclosure
Michael: I pushed Uber to acquire Lyft; Kalanick wanted to crush them
“I was like, we should buy Lyft. He's like, we should crush Lyft.”
Emil Michael Dec 13, 2025 ▶ 28:27 Inside the Myths: Emil Michael on Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril & the Modern DoW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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