Uber, every mention

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▶ 15:40 John Coogan I believe he was the, the, the guy who left Google, went to Uber, and then went to jail and got pardoned for stealing code from Waymo.
▶ 1:30:25 Jordi Hays Did you know that Uber doesn't own cars or hire drivers on W-twos?

▶ 2:43 John Coogan Uh, she's known for a high profile, low profile, high luxury aesthetic embraced by heavyweights at Uber, Google, and Apple.
▶ 1:40:16 Jordi Hays Yeah, and there's, look, look at, um, what's that lobbying group in D.C., the Uber guy.
▶ 3:04:47 Jordi Hays With the Uber. 2 times in the scene

▶ 1:24:38 unnamed speaker A shortcut to, to trust is I was a product manager at Uber.

▶ 1:48:39 Jordi Hays You can go to him if you want to build, uh, the next Uber, but, um, but he's interested in investing in founders that want to run businesses that are seriously well run, uh, and capital efficient, which, uh,

▶ 1:06:28 Jordi Hays So when Waymo, instead of doing Uber black, because all Waymo cars are like clean and fairly spacious, and it's nice inside, so maybe black doesn't matter, but they should have a Waymo Turbo S functionality, right?
▶ 1:42:13 John Coogan I mean, it feels like Uber and Lyft right now, where, you know, if you're not in Polymarket, you got to get into Kelshi.

▶ 28:13 Jordi Hays Like something like DoorDash, Uber, things of that nature.
▶ 1:05:40 John Coogan He says, they should have Uber Eats Black. 2 times in the scene
▶ 1:06:17 Jordi Hays Um, and, uh, anyways, that's like Uber's the dominant player.

▶ 54:33 John Coogan It was like, you know, if you can be the first investor in Uber and the rest of your portfolio is trash, like that doesn't matter because you got the stamp of like, you got into the.
▶ 59:59 Jordi Hays So even if you weren't a PM at Uber or you didn't go to Stanford, you can still signal that you're a part of that.
▶ 1:22:27 John Coogan Uh, but, uh, also like weird memetic stuff, you know, that the, the founder was also named Travis and he was former Uber guy. 2 times in the scene
▶ 1:39:31 Jordi Hays I want to see the average YC founder leaving Uber or Meta, joining YC, and sleeping in their supercar.
▶ 1:47:15 Jordi Hays I think what he says he, he has, he had to take a while back that like really resonated, which is that Tesla should not be allowed to classify as a black car on Uber. 2 times in the scene
▶ 2:01:46 Jordi Hays He was at, not Uber Eats, but he was at, um, the one in LA, uh, Bastion's company.