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Kalanick Claims Uber Never Pushed Regulations to Advantage Itself
“I never did that.
Like we never did that.
We basically never ever
Proposed or pushed any rule that would be beneficial to us versus somebody else.”
Pronto's Autonomous Tech Has Surpassed Human Productivity in Mining
“The pronto technology has got gotten past human productivity, which means you go to a gold mine CEO, you talk about go to market, you go to a gold mine CEO and you say, would you like to have 20% more gold per year?”
Kalanick Predicts Autonomous Food Delivery Will Cost $0.75 Per Drop
“When the food is coming out of our facilities, there's probably like a machine that holds food at temperature. That's like a box on wheels. I call them autonomous burritos and It brings it to your home, and it costs 75 cents instead of, like, the 12 dollars pe…”
Human Labor Will Become Increasingly Valuable Until Super AGI
“Until we get super AGI. Humans are valuable, and they are going to become more and more valuable because they will be the long pole in the tent to progress, and that progress is going to accelerate and get faster and more, you know, more robust, except If you'…”
Travis Kalanick Announces $1.7 Billion Raise for Adams
“I announced earlier today we did a 1.7 billion dollar raise.”
An Unnamed Supply Chain Giant Spends $3.5B Annually on Forklift Labor
“I know a company, remain unnamed, that's spending three and a half, this is on the supply chain side, three and a half billion dollars a year on forklift labor in their facilities.”
Kalanick Barred Thousands of Stealth Employees From Listing Atoms on LinkedIn
“Till today, employees were not allowed to put the name of the company on their LinkedIn. We have thousands of employees.”
Uber Priced Private Mega-Rounds Using Internal Iterative Auction Mechanisms
“We would basically, once they said they were interested, we would then give them a piece of paper. It was like digital, but it was like, you need to fill out this table, which is This valuation, how much money you want to put in this valuation, how much money,…”
D.C. Regulators Pushed $1.5M Insurance for Uber Versus $25K for Taxis
“Like I remember we went to DC and the taxi system, the liability on a ride, if you took a taxi, it might still be this way to this day was like 25,000 dollars in a taxi.
But we went to, we being Uber at the time, went to DC and they pushed a one and a half mil…”
City Storage Systems Operates as a Food Conglomerate Across 30 Countries
“I was running a company called City Storage Systems. Okay, which was basically about the future of food, a conglomerate operating in about 30 countries”
Uber Ran Parallel Fundraising Rooms Segmented by $25M to $250M Checks
“The last round of funding that I did at Uber, we were like a seventy million or, you know, I don't know, it was like a 60, seventy billion dollar pre Let's see that. Yeah. When that used to be a thing. Now I go, that's small stuff, but we had four rooms. This …”
Drew Houston Pioneered Late-Stage Institutional Fundraising for Tech Startups
“I have to give credit to Drew at Dropbox. He was like the first guy in that game.”
Selling Red Swoosh for $19M Remains Kalanick's Happiest Day
“And I sold it to Akamai for like,
I think it was like nineteen million bucks and probably to this day is still the happiest day of my life.”