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Astra Reactions, Jobs Print, Cybercab Launch | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 24:53 unnamed speaker Uh, this will completely replace Uber for me.
Nvidia’s $500B Compute Deal, Paramount Threatens CA Exit, Musk’s Shortcut to $1T Payday | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:25 John Coogan When you actually, uh, look online and you see the reviews of people talking about Tesla Ubers, they're like, I wish there was a Tesla product, or an Uber product, where I could demand that if it's a Tesla, they have to stay in full… 3 times in the scene
Inside Travis Kalanick’s Wild New AI Company
- ▶ 0:31 Travis Kalanick Unless it's raining and it gets a little weird when you call an Uber.
- ▶ 8:34 John Coogan And it's not like you're calling in favors or leveraging your network to get Uber up and running in a new city.
- ▶ 21:58 Travis Kalanick Like, you know, I, I do, I have to sort of admit like the Uber mentality. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:04 John Coogan Uber famously went city by city. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:17 Travis Kalanick It brings it to your home, and it costs 75 cents instead of, like, the 12 dollars per drop that it costs, like an Uber Eats or a DoorDash today.
- ▶ 42:52 Travis Kalanick Like A-sixteen, these guys, we, we should have done business at Uber. 2 times in the scene
Blue Origin Raises Capital, Getty-Shutterstock Deal Dies, GPT-5.6 Launches Tomorrow | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:05 unnamed speaker I was listening to Gavin Baker and Travis Kalanick talk about how crazy it was when Gavin was at Fidelity, and he wanted to value Uber at fourteen billion, and everyone thought he was crazy.
Jake Paul Thinks We'll Live Forever
🚀 SpaceX IPO Liftoff | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 29:05 John Coogan I was your Uber driver three months ago. 2 times in the scene
Bezos' Prometheus Raises $12B, America Inc. Moves to Texas, Trucking Rebounds | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:40 unnamed speaker You got Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick, Coinbase co-founder Brian Armstrong, Robin Hood co-founder Vlad Tenev, also, uh, Brian Chesky over at Airbnb.
Google Raises $80B, Confidential IPO 101, OpenAI Expands Codex | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:54 John Coogan These Decacorns, you had Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash, Palantir. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:43 Jordi Hays Uber.
New Glenn Explodes, Enterprise AI Enters ROI Era, The Dinosaur Fossil Boom | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:49 John Coogan Uber went back and forth on, well, we blew through our budget, but a lot of people were saying, well, if they set a budget in 20, 25 for their token spend in 20, 26, like the capabilities have gotten so much better. 3 times in the scene
Musk Loses OpenAI Case, Leopold’s 13F, Data Center Backlash | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 22:21 unnamed speaker You could, like, go try a restaurant for, like, half price, and it just felt, like, magical, or, like, Uber when that came out.
Airbnb CEO on Why AI Will Create a New Era of Consumer Products
- ▶ 22:26 Brian Chesky I guess it became, like, the worst idea that ever worked, but we carved our own space, as did Uber, um, and we weren't trying to be anything else,
Allbirds’ AI Pivot, Snap Cuts 16% of Workforce, Amazon’s GlobalStar Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:18 John Coogan We saw that report from Uber that they blew through a year of budget for on AI tools in just a couple months. 2 times in the scene
Artemis II Makes History, Nutella in Space, The US-China AI Race | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:29 John Coogan Like, within the exact minute, everyone was joking, like, whoever's in charge of this should be in charge of Uber Eats delivery times, or something like that, or DoorDash delivery times.
Andy Dunn is Building the App to Get You Off Your Phone
- ▶ 4:55 Andy Dunn Those are our Airbnb super hosts, those are our Uber drivers, those are our Wikipedia article writers, and we can pay those folks up to 3500 dollars a month via a rewards program to light up plans and events on Pi, and then they typically…
- ▶ 8:14 Andy Dunn Spot Hero was just acquired by Uber.
FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
- ▶ 11:05 Thomas Laffont Like you would have, if you had a ride sharing company, there were a 150 other ride sharing companies that you had to kind of get through just to then win your city, to then go and compete with all the other cities, to then at the end…
- ▶ 26:35 Thomas Laffont They just did around a three billion felt like a lot and then Uber.
Benchmark’s Ship of Theseus, OpenAI Kills Sora, SpaceX $2T IPO Buzz | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 1:23 Jordi Hays It's hard to imagine Uber being worth less than something like a trillion dollars today. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:30 John Coogan Uh, Kalanick resigned as Uber CEO on June 20th of 20, 20, uh, 2017 after investor pressure that included Benchmark. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:29 Jordi Hays If a business hires somebody on Fiverr and has an amazing experience, eventually they're just gonna go direct because they build up a lot of trust, and it's very different than, than a platform like Uber, where you don't necessarily want… 2 times in the scene
Tall Poppy Syndrome, Bytedance Gets Blackwell Chips, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:38 John Coogan The news is Travis Kalanick plots new self-driving venture with Lewandowski and Uber. 3 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is Back with a New AI Startup
- ▶ 1:19 Travis Kalanick Because if you do, you do to the kitchen what Uber did to the car. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:00 Travis Kalanick You're working with Travis, former founder of Uber, like there's leverage there, but then you, you have a name like city storage systems and it's like, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:25 unnamed speaker Uber is a consumer company.
- ▶ 11:42 unnamed speaker Uh, I feel like Uber is the greatest example of network effects and runaway scale. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:41 Travis Kalanick It looks like Uber Eats or DoorDash.
- ▶ 15:10 unnamed speaker People were, people were like, this is how I remember the Uber versus Lyft battle. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:54 unnamed speaker Like, I feel like that's the, that's the lesson from the Uber story that gets missed amid all the random drama is that there's actually like a very interesting financial war happening and it played out very well for you. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:21 Travis Kalanick I didn't know it then, or I didn't think about it that way exactly, but at Uber, we were building network for the physical world, also known as digitized transportation.
- ▶ 33:50 Travis Kalanick I guess I just, I cracked the code so thoroughly in Uber times before, I think maybe even before anybody else. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:52 Travis Kalanick So Jason Kalkanis, the most famous investor in Uber of all time.
- ▶ 47:31 Travis Kalanick It's like, dude, that looks like Uber's thing in the, you know, now it's like, if you're talking about physical AI, it's like, that's Tesla.
Apple’s MacBook Neo, OpenAI’s Pentagon Agreement, Anthropic’s Investors Silent on DoW | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 8:59 unnamed speaker I wonder what, uh, like, how exposed the Gemini APIs will be in iOS, because if you, if you fully expose, like, Gemini kit, like, you know, in iOS, just like you can call, like, a weather API or a maps API, like, Uber exists because there… 2 times in the scene
FULL BREAKDOWN: Apple’s 7 New Devices
- ▶ 11:22 unnamed speaker Like, Uber exists because there was, like, a, there was, like, a GPS API that you could just call within an iOS application, uh, with a couple lines of code. 2 times in the scene
Citrini Research’s viral piece, AI and the economy, 90s Nostalgia | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 21:04 unnamed speaker The airport is closed and Ubers and taxis are not running.
Why My Article Just Tanked the Market
- ▶ 12:23 Alap Shah But I just was in a thread with Gavin Baker talking about this, but the problem for DoorDash and Uber and folks like that is right now they're doing two jobs. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:19 John Coogan Because right now, I, I think about, like, what was the driver marketing budget over the last decade at Uber or at DoorDash?
REACTION: The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis
Becoming Unsloppable, Anthropic’s Series G, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 5:47 John Coogan Uh, I was talking to Dara Kosheri at Uber about this. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:03 Jordi Hays Marketplaces, Airbnb, Uber, DoorDash, IP holders, Disney, Netflix, Warner Brothers.
Become Unsloppable: How to Survive the Great Software Collapse
- ▶ 7:17 unnamed speaker You can vibe code a, uh, I was talking to Dara Khosrowshari at Uber about this. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:52 Jordi Hays Marketplaces, Airbnb, Uber, DoorDash,
Elon’s go-to banker leads SpaceX IPO, SaaSination, Bejing’s robot Boom | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 1:37 unnamed speaker He took Facebook, Google, Tesla, Uber, Spotify, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Workday, and literally hundreds of other tech companies, uh, public. 4 times in the scene
Anthropic’s Trust Nuke, OpenAI’s new releases, Google Claims AI Crown | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 25:52 John Coogan I mean, Dara Khoshoshari, CEO of Uber, yesterday came on and said that, you know, 75% of all land in cities is parking lots or something. 2 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic’s Attack Ads, Live on TBPN
- ▶ 12:57 unnamed speaker We had, we had Dara, we had Dara from Uber on yesterday and it was, he had a pretty refreshing kind of approach. 4 times in the scene
China’s acquisition spree, TikTok reaches U.S survival deal, Tech Giants hit by spying | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:25 unnamed speaker IRCTCAI just destroyed Uber all AI.
Davos Reactions, Waymo in the News, WB & Netflix Strike All Cash Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 21:06 John Coogan Some folks say the free, freeway driving is so, so, uh, the antidote to that is I get, uh, into an Uber and, and do the same drive.
Big Tech turns to mining, Thinking Machines loses top executives, NYC Sauna Wars heat up | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:49 Tyler Denk And yes, we're going to get the Ubers.
Siri needs an App, OpenAI Acquires health startup Torch, Claude Cowork reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:03 Jordi Hays Uh, Ilya was also an early Uber GM, so trained at the Travis Kalanick, uh, School of Mogging.
AI Needs a Steve Jobs, Meta’s Nuclear Powerplants, a16z raises $15B | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:59 unnamed speaker Maybe, you know, imagine somebody that's driving for Uber and Lyft, and all day long they're driving, and they're just seeing, they're sitting next to Waymo's in traffic, and you're looking over, and there's no one in the seat, like,…
CES’s legacy, reactions to Dwarkesh’s “Capital in the 22nd Century,” and more | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:21 unnamed speaker Uber, the ride hailing company, plus EV maker Lucid and Neuro have begun on-road testing for their planned robo-taxi service. 2 times in the scene
Paramount Strikes Back, Ads In Gemini, Bieber’s Apple Beef | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 20:35 unnamed speaker Rest in peace, Amazon, DoorDash, Uber Eats, etc.
Live From NYSE, The Gemini Win Scenario, OpenAI Monetizing With Ads | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:40 unnamed speaker How big the Uber burn was before ultimately getting into black. 4 times in the scene
Nvidia Q3 Earnings, Travis Kalanick's New Startup, Google's Nano Banana Pro Reaction | Diet TBPN
OpenAI Requesting Federal Backstop? | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 25:51 John Coogan Uber and Facebook and Google were trying to sell their products into China.
Mark Gurman on Apple Glasses Release Date, The Next AirPods, The Problem With Siri & More
- ▶ 20:31 Mark Gurman Will Uber, Postmates, Uber Eats, Amazon, whatever. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:31 Mark Gurman Will Uber, Postmates, Uber Eats, Amazon, whatever.
Sequoia Capital Partner Shaun Maguire Live on TBPN
- ▶ 16:38 Shaun Maguire You know, I'm sure you remember, like, Uber was the hottest company in the world for a long time, and DoorDash was, DoorDash was, like, number three or so in the space.
Don't Die CEO Bryan Johnson on Living Forever, AI & His $60M Blueprint For Immortality
- ▶ 31:42 Bryan Johnson So we got customers like Airbnb, Uber, GitHub, uh, we got all the Gen Z people, and then Venmo had done a fantastic job building out consumer side, and we could then marry those two demographics, and it's like, perfect.
Are AI Agents Further Away Than We Think? | Dropbox CEO Drew Houston Joins TBPN
- ▶ 0:39 unnamed speaker Are you an Uber fan?
Brian Chesky Live on TBPN
- ▶ 19:48 Brian Chesky The iPhone, they didn't make every app in the app store, because can you imagine how big of a bureaucracy that would have had to be for Apple to build Airbnb and Uber and Instacart and Instagram and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Google Makes MAJOR Cancer Research Breakthrough | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 21:07 unnamed speaker Like, you know, look back at Uber and Lyft. 6 times in the scene
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
- ▶ 18:39 unnamed speaker It is certainly maybe in 20, 21, if the Uber driver had like a crypto wallet pulled up, that was maybe a signal, but in general, it's like, there's so little friction to investing. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
- ▶ 1:01:03 unnamed speaker It's as hard to predict as Instagram or Uber, but it's unlocked by having this, having this ability for free on the iPhone.
Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- ▶ 1:34:36 Everett Randle The best place to create network effects is in a digital marketplace, like an Uber and Airbnb or a DoorDash. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:41:47 Everett Randle And so like every single category now has become like me, you know, like mini ride share or like mini Uber market where it's like, Hey, there's probably a really big pot of gold at the end of the tunnel. 2 times in the scene
9 Mansions Every AI Researcher Should Own
- ▶ 13:43 unnamed speaker Uber for air hockey.
Weekly Recap: Gwyneth Paltrow Saves Astronomer, Figma’s IPO, Top AI Researchers Ranked
- ▶ 34:32 Eric Glyman Or, or their purchase, and that's just gone.
Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs
- ▶ 49:12 Jordi Hays I don't know if they could plug into the Uber network or any of these other networks. 2 times in the scene
The Future of ChatGPT
- ▶ 22:36 unnamed speaker I don't know if they could plug into the Uber network or any of these other networks. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
- ▶ 4:25 John Coogan Remember Uber's initial build out was all outsourced and it was like, it was like a mark on the company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:40 Suhail Doshi I mean, I'm a nerd when it comes to the theory of the film because of my experience at Uber and so forth. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:41:22 Jordi Hays What about, uh, the, the apps of the world, the Ubers, the Instacarts that actually have really meaningful advertiser businesses, you know, businesses built on top of them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42:19 Matthew Prince Uh, and if today, you know, Uber is able to, um, monetize the time where I'm, I'm waiting for a car to come by showing me an advertisement, um, that, that means that they can effectively charge me less for the ride. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Tesla Robotaxi, Mr. Beast's AI Tool, Yacine, The Social Network 2, Neuralink Update
- ▶ 7:34 Jordi Hays Power bottom dad says time will tell, but my bet is that this signals the death of the Waymo leaving Google in a twenty billion dollar hole, and likely Uber as well.
We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day (June 2025)
- ▶ 52:18 unnamed speaker It's like, uh, there's, there's like one app, like the Uber app exists, and then there's an app clip that ties to, to Uber. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- ▶ 2:07:32 John Coogan Because an Uber only requires one person. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 2:40:51 John Coogan As I understand App Clips, it's like, it's like, uh, there's, there's like one app, like the Uber app exists, and then there's an App Clip that ties to, to Uber. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:53:37 unnamed speaker He's currently, uh, you know, at scale being promoted and he was, um, formerly an Uber VP and formerly also a partner, uh, in VC at Benchmark.
When Will Robot Deliveries Become the Default? | Daniel Singer on TBPN
- ▶ 2:31 Daniel Singer We're, we're kind of the only company that's partnered with Uber, DoorDash, and a bunch of other partners that we're kind of announcing soon.
Missing PayPal and Google Made Him a Better Investor | Ali Partovi on TBPN
- ▶ 2:24 Ali Partovi So yeah, also Zappos, um, Uber, a couple of others.
Why Patience Is the Secret to Building Iconic Companies | Mike Vernal on TBPN
- ▶ 27:08 Mike Vernal , there was Snapchat, there was WhatsApp, there was Uber, there was Lyft, there was DoorDash, there was Instacart.
Building Durable Brands in Venture Capital | David Tisch on TBPN
- ▶ 14:43 David Tisch When Uber trained the world that you could touch something on your phone and something in the real world would happen, it unlocked like a
- ▶ 15:57 John Coogan Uh, this is a topic that Jordy and I have been debated and it's kind of related to Uber opening the mindset of like this delivery boom, uh, uh, chat GPT rappers.
What AI and LEGO Have in Common | Flo Crivello on TBPN April 7th
- ▶ 18:28 Flo Crivello If you're Uber, we don't have Uber as a customer, but I used to work at Uber. 3 times in the scene
Is AI UNDERVALUED? | Scott Wu on TBPN April 3rd
- ▶ 1:33 unnamed speaker And he said, uh, the top six US companies in terms of unicorns are Uber, Palantir, Airbnb, Dropbox, 2 times in the scene
Aidan McLaughlin (OpenAI) On ChatGPT, model welfare, and path to AGI
- ▶ 10:19 Jordi Hays You know, in LA, at least like there was just entire fan pages dedicated to like throwing birds off of, you know, uh, buildings you posted, uh, last week, you said, I suspect in six months, it'll be safer to Uber than Waymo.
Delian Asparouhov on Defense Startups, NASA, Continuing Resolution and More
- ▶ 10:05 John Coogan You just take a taxi or take an Uber over to Sand Hill Road and you got ten million dollars like next week.
Guillermo Rauch on the Next.js Drama, AI-Driven Dev, Vercel’s v0, and the Future of Frontend.
- ▶ 5:16 Guillermo Rauch You could, I don't know if the audience knows, but you could Google and literally find auth tokens of different companies like Uber indexed by Google.
- ▶ 30:48 John Coogan What, what are the conversations like on your side to keep a Nike or an Uber on Vercel longterm?
Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
- ▶ 12:27 unnamed speaker But then if you're using it to order an Uber, it just does, you know, it's not going to do it.
The GREAT VC AI DEBATE between Slow Ventures and Greylock Partners.
- ▶ 20:49 Seth Rosenberg It created DoorDash.
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