Uber, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Uber comes up
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.