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Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:32 Blake Scholl You know, so for example, at building Uber, uh, Travis basically ignored the regulators and built the service anyway, built a fan base of customers who, that he could use against the regulators that were trying to shut him down. 2 times in the scene
Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:01 Mark Pincus Even though consumer is arguably not investable right now, I do think that oddly the opportunity has never been greater to offer people a new, you know, internet treasure and reinvent some service that we thought was over or just generic,…
How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:30 Spencer Skates There has to be a Uber for tech support.
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:40 Amjad Masad So think about, um, like getting an Uber today. 2 times in the scene
François Chollet: How We Get To AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:01 François Chollet We recruited random folks, Uber drivers, UCDS students, people who are unemployed, so basically anyone trying to make some money on the side.
DoorDash CEO: Customer Obsession, Surviving Startup Death & Creating A New Market · Y Combinator
Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:12 Rujul Zaparde Uh, and this is, you have to remember, like, pre-Uber and Lyft, like, really, you know, I mean, they must have been early stage companies at best.
How To Convert Customers With Cold Emails | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 29:47 Aaron Epstein We got Uber, Fitbit, GoPro, and others using us and thought your team would enjoy them too. 2 times in the scene
How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just 2 Years · Y Combinator
Why Startup Founders Should Launch Companies Sooner Than They Think · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:38 Michael Seibel Like, did you ever remember Uber's launch?
Consumer Startup Metrics | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:13 Tom Blomfield Or maybe with Uber, you get a free ride, they get a free ride.
Techno Optimism, Explained · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:44 Dalton Caldwell Freaking Uber.
B2B Startup Metrics | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:56 Tom Blomfield Famously, Uber did this. 4 times in the scene
Does Your Startup Need To Be In San Francisco? · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:39 Michael Seibel Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash.
- ▶ 8:45 Dalton Caldwell This is the thing that makes things like Airbnb work, like Uber work, like all the startups.
Silicon Valley's Cargo Culting Problem · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:00 Dalton Caldwell The idea that superficially copying Uber. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:45 Michael Seibel Uh, what else did, what else was the Uber, not the, uh, the Facebook classics?
- ▶ 5:36 Michael Seibel Uber. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:00 Michael Seibel And then last with Uber, I think like the 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:26 Michael Seibel Like, do they care about, you know, what city Uber just expanded to, or do they care that, like, Uber shows up in five minutes in their city?
The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:24 Kat Mignalek And let's be honest, the term, you know, Uber for X or Airbnb for X has been a bit overused.
How to Get and Evaluate Startup Ideas | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:16 Jared Friedman And roughly the story of Checkr is delivery services like DoorDash and Instacart and Uber started to take off.
Save Your Startup During an Economic Downturn · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:47 Dalton Caldwell Successfully grow really fast with a high burn and thread the needle and, you know, become Uber or whatever.
Investors Said No, Now What? · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:46 Harj Taggar Like, anytime someone says, well, I don't know, don't, like, 60% of US consumers not want to purchase blah blah blah, you should be able to say, well, actually, like, I've been spending the last month with, like, um, Uber drivers, and…
How To Change The World? Get The Small Things Right – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:10 Dalton Caldwell How many times has YC funded that idea before Uber and it didn't work?
Diego Saez Gil - How Pachama Uses Tech to Solve Climate Change · Y Combinator
- ▶ 34:38 Diego Saez-Gil Uh, our lead investor is Ryan Graves, the co-founder of Uber. 2 times in the scene
YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator
- ▶ 47:37 Eric Migicovsky Should we give incentives to our housewives to trust us like Uber did at the beginning? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:56 Michael Seibel So in the extreme beginning of Uber, what was so interesting was that it launched in San Francisco, and it launched as Uber Black, which is a really expensive product, actually. 2 times in the scene
Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:33 Matt Cutts Like, yeah, once you have helped make a student loan wizard that literally helps your sister, you know, fix her student loan and be able to get a car and have a better life, like, you're like, why am I going to go work on Uber for dog…
Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:25 Gustaf Alströmer Lyft and Uber and Airbnb are examples of those.
Jay Reno of Feather, a Furniture Subscription Startup · Y Combinator
Adora Cheung - How to Set KPIs and Goals · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:07 Adora Cheung Another example is Uber.
Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- ▶ 46:15 Gustaf Alströmer Um, and similarly to how Uber and Lyft is sort of viral in their nature because it's a new experience and it's something that we often do together with friends.
Analyzing Billions of Transactions to Understand Consumer Behavior - Michael Babineau and Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:29 Kevin Hale Like Uber, Lyft.
- ▶ 19:39 Michael Babineau The Uber Lyft thing is like a recurring topic, and so in our blog we've decided, you know what, we're just gonna keep publishing periodically, um, publishing updates on that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:07 Michael Babineau But it also includes like other things like, um, you know, figuring out, um, for an Uber transaction, it says San Francisco. 3 times in the scene
Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India's Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:48 Vidit Aatrey And now, especially for sure, like, 10 years ago, you could have just done, like, got Uber here, or maybe something else here, and that would have worked.
Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:54 Ryan Hoover Cause we're not, uh, it's not like a Lyft and Uber situation.
What Shutting Down Your Startup Feels Like - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy with Kat Manalac · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:03 Avni Patel Thompson So, you know, you don't really care who your Uber driver is as long as they get you from point A to point B.
Vinod Khosla : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:36 Vinod Khosla He wanted the people who were all making million dollar salaries at Google and Uber and other places as engineers.
Starting a Startup After Business School - Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis of AptDeco · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:15 Reham Fagiri Uber had just taken off, and, you know, everybody's, like, now doing this
Andrew Kortina of Venmo and Fin on Technological Determinism and Work's Relationship to Dignity · Y Combinator
- ▶ 44:03 Andrew Kortina But do it a little bit more like, um, Uber, where it's a network of people providing the service, they're enabled by technology. 2 times in the scene
Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:07 Shola Akinlade We called an Uber, I think. 4 times in the scene
Peter Reinhardt on Finding Product Market Fit at Segment · Y Combinator
- ▶ 46:12 Peter Reinhardt A lot of startups, like Uber, for example, do not end up with paying really high prices for this later.
David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator
- ▶ 45:33 David Rusenko Um, you know, I think another probably great example, um, would be either Uber or Airbnb, right?
Michael Seibel - Building Product · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:09 Michael Seibel So Poppy is a company that's essentially Uber for babysitting. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:18 Michael Seibel Let's think about a company like Uber, for example. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:53 Michael Seibel Um, it was basically like Uber for personal assistants.
Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator
Advice for Students and Recent Graduates on Finding Jobs – Liz Wessel of WayUp · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:08 Liz Wessel I love walking, um, or Uber if I'm on a call and I need quiet.
Helping Landlords Find Tenants – Sean Mitchell of Rezi · Y Combinator
- ▶ 39:30 Sean Mitchell An Uber pass.
Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:13 Jennifer Kim And then on the second end, um, yeah, if you're watching the news these days, there's a lot of attention on Uber. 3 times in the scene
Cost vs Quality in Edtech – Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:12 Avichal Garg and then you'll get a Snapchat or a WhatsApp or an Uber or a Lyft or a Stripe or like the list goes on, right? 3 times in the scene
Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:35 Elad Gil And so I, you know, uh, jumped in a, in a Uber and headed over.
- ▶ 18:28 Elad Gil Um, but second, I also thought it was gonna be a winner take all market, and I thought Uber was just gonna win everything.
- ▶ 47:01 Pejman Nozad So these are, these are the ideas and problems that become the Ubers and Dropbox or Slacks of our world.
- ▶ 1:00:19 Geoff Ralston Uber's sort of the classic example where you look at that and say, ah, taxi market, that's boring, it's small, but it turned out there was a much larger market, um,
Dalton Caldwell - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:37 Geoff Ralston Or, you know, there's this great services called Uber and Lyft.
- ▶ 14:09 Dalton Caldwell Um, similarly, something like Uber, the, the market size of people calling black cars was very, very small at the time, and so you could have easily, you know, disqualified that, um, just on that criteria alone.
- ▶ 38:49 Dalton Caldwell So one metaphor that I've, I've talked about with a company in the past is in the same way that, um, Uber doesn't actually own any cars, and Airbnb doesn't own any, um, physical property, you're going to be an ISP that doesn't actually own…
Sam Altman - Startup Investor School Day 1 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:44 Sam Altman If you think about the size of the social networking market when Facebook started, if you think about the size of ride sharing apps when Uber started, um, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:58 Sam Altman You know, when Uber was getting going, there, there would be all of these articles that would come out. 3 times in the scene
The Number One Goal is Getting Started - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator
- ▶ 36:35 Avni Patel Thompson And so I think a lot of those things from like a Lyft or an Uber or an Airbnb, people who completely in what five years.
It's Surprising How Much Small Teams Can Get Done - Sam Chaudhary of ClassDojo · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:25 Sam Chaudhary We didn't want to get a cab, like, Uber wasn't around then, we didn't want to get a cab, so we, like, biked for miles in, like, the steaming South Bay sun to get there, and turned up just dripping with sweat to this audience of teachers,…
The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:32 Tikhon Bernstam Um, back then Craigslist was super hot, so, like, everyone was trying to do, much like nowadays, everyone's doing, like, Uber for X, like, back then it was Craigslist for X.
Artist Lauren McCarthy Will Be Your Home's Brain · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:38 Lauren McCarthy I, well, so another piece of this is thinking about these services, like, um, TaskRabbit or Uber or, like, where, or, uh, Mechanical Turk, where you've got some human on some side of it, and you, depending on the service, there's a…
IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:59:10 Juan Benet Another thing is, um, and, and, and this is, you know, uh, I don't know how, how it'll play out, but I actually bet a lot of people will be mining on both networks, or like all, all, all of the networks, and we'll see how that actually…
Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:25 Josh Elman Um, Ed joined Uber to start the growth team when it was five people, and then over the three and a half years became kind of VP of, of both product and growth for kind of all of Uber, and Gustav joined, and the Airbnb growth team was him…
- ▶ 8:46 Ed Baker I kind of took a lot of those learnings when I went over to Uber, um, and started our growth team there with just initially a five person team.
- ▶ 9:02 Josh Elman Well, and, and, and, you know, that's a perfect transition because when I've been talking to a lot of people about sort of what the real success of Uber and Airbnb, I mean, Joe gave a great talk about sort of 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:33 Ed Baker I'd say at Uber, there were kind of three big differences from Facebook when I went over there, in terms of forming our initial growth team. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:15 Ed Baker So, Facebook, we didn't really do very much paid acquisition, but, um, at Uber, we had an entire performance marketing team. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:46 Josh Elman But I think, you know, both Uber and Airbnb, because your businesses people actually pay for, how do you think about paid acquisition differently than this sort of organic acquisition? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:20 Ed Baker And Uber, we now have a team at Uber called Product Ops, and it's basically a team that kind of, um, is that bridge between the product team and the operations team. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:40 unnamed speaker Ed, you talked about the North Star, and you said at Uber it was about the number of rides, but you could have easily been optimizing for crazy retention and zero growth, and new user growth, or new rider growth, or all new rider growth,…
- ▶ 32:58 Ed Baker We, we actually merged the product team and the growth team about a year ago at Uber for largely for those reasons.
- ▶ 33:47 unnamed speaker Uh, Uber was super aggressive in China and growing.
Pitch Practice with Paul Buchheit and Sam Altman at Startup School SV 2016 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:08 Sam Altman Everyone thinks that the market has become really efficient, because they've read the box, and they know about containers, and they think, they're like, this is a solved problem, um, but still more than half of all cargo doesn't get… 2 times in the scene
Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis at Startup School SV 2016 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:14 Reham Fagiri We wanna be like an Airbnb or an Uber. 2 times in the scene
Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:57 Paul Graham It's sort of like Uber.
- ▶ 24:22 Paul Graham So it's, it's not quite like Uber.