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