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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.
- ▶ 25:12 unnamed speaker Well, isn't it possible that we wind up looking back on this in a few years and think like, oh, we just hadn't thought of what the Uber for AI is. 4 times in the scene
Logan Bartlett talks about the history of VC, current sentiment, and are we back to 2021?
- ▶ 25:31 Logan Bartlett And I draw it akin to the Ubers or the WhatsApps or whatever it is, where these businesses that couldn't have been possible without AI are going to form a lot of independent equity value. 2 times in the scene
Trae Stephens talks Flock Safety, Anduril, and American Dynamism.
- ▶ 2:08 unnamed speaker Although, uh, you know, we were joking about, uh, it used to be Uber for dogs at YC, now it's Andrel for dogs, but there, it really was cursor for dogs actually yesterday.
Bridget Harris breaks down the Prime Intellect deal and the broader sentiment in crypto today.
- ▶ 8:15 Bridget Harris And so like the, the, the joke on Twitter is like, you know, like Uber drivers everywhere are celebrating that Cardano's in the strategic reserve.
"Work at an outstanding organization first" - Keith Rabois Advice on Starting Companies
- ▶ 16:35 unnamed speaker Uh, one thing that's been interesting is seeing how Uber's been positioning themselves in the context of autonomous driving, right? 2 times in the scene
The Future of Autonomous Vehicles
- ▶ 4:15 unnamed speaker He also talks about how he became CEO of Uber a little bit more. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:22 unnamed speaker Is Uber a winner or loser in the AI era? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:53 unnamed speaker That's Uber. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:24 unnamed speaker Certainly Uber has a lot of people that have installed the app. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:54 unnamed speaker I do wonder if, uh, maybe Uber is particularly well positioned for this, like slower transition towards AV fleet rollouts, because even if the next training run of the AV AI system is just flawless and superhuman in every way, it's still… 6 times in the scene
REVIEW: HIMS Super Bowl Ad (Controversy)
- ▶ 14:04 John Coogan While Uber disrupted the taxi industry, HIMS & HERS is up against Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and the entire pharmaceutical and health insurance complex, and the law is pretty clear that when it comes to a shortage is, when it, when a…
The FULL HISTORY of Temu (Why it's EXPLODING!)
- ▶ 25:09 unnamed speaker I remember there was some guy on Twitter who's bragging about basically defrauding Uber Eats with like all these referral tokens, just getting, uh, people on Mechanical Turk to sign up and get him money. 2 times in the scene
From NOTHING to BILLIONS (Masa's Epic Rise)
- ▶ 36:04 unnamed speaker I mean, the whole benchmark Uber story, people are like, you know, maybe that was like, they were like looking at, well, you know, we're each going to take home a billion dollars individually.
- ▶ 42:28 unnamed speaker He makes bets on Uber, WeWork, ByteDance, DD, DoorDash, Grab, 5 times in the scene
The Future of Defense Technology
- ▶ 11:04 unnamed speaker That time has long passed in part because Uber, Lyft, SpaceX, and Airbnb kicked down the doors. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:01 unnamed speaker And then, um, uh, Emil Michael also went, went into the administration as well, and he was, uh, the right-hand man of Travis Kalanick at, at Uber, uh, and just a great overall guy. 2 times in the scene
The Internet’s Most Famous Drug Dealer (Ross Ulbricht)
- ▶ 1:12:49 unnamed speaker Silk road was the door dash or the Uber of, you know, whatever you wanted.
DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
- ▶ 1:38:25 John Coogan If you're out in the world, getting a coffee or taking an Uber, ask someone random.
DJI Suspicions, Stargate Turmoil, OpenAI Operator, F40 for the Mind
- ▶ 1:37:26 John Coogan It was Priceline, StubHub, Thumbtack, and Uber.
- ▶ 2:00:44 unnamed speaker Like they don't get 30% of Uber's revenue. 2 times in the scene
The END of TikTok?
- ▶ 56:37 John Coogan Uber got kicked out and couldn't deal with that.
The Businesses Making $$$ off Disaster Relief
- ▶ 2:10:53 Jordi Hays He says, uh, according to my iPhone, I walked for approximately 12.6 miles yesterday, mostly because I didn't want to pay for nons or Ubers in the Bay Area.
Can This Man Save Los Angeles? (Rick Caruso)
- ▶ 1:27:34 John Coogan Not everything needs to be, uh, perfectly monopolistic, and so you could see someone coming out with some sort of, like, opulent robo-taxi that's cleaned every single time and very high, like, what is the Uber Black or the Cadillac…
- ▶ 1:29:10 John Coogan It was like Uber where it was like, it was like Uber was too aggressive of a name. 2 times in the scene
How to WIN in 2025? (INSANE Predictions List)
- ▶ 48:55 John Coogan Uh, Waymo will surpass Uber in rides taken in San Francisco and Los Angeles by the end of 2025.
- ▶ 1:22:35 Jordi Hays I work at Uber.