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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