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Some city-council people are really awesome, but most are uninspired.
Travis Kalanick
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You want supply to always be full, and you use price to basically either bring more supply on or get more supply off, or get more demand in the system or get some demand out.
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In some way, L.A. respects the young guy that's out there just trying to make it happen, but in some ways, they disrespect that, too.
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I really love numbers.
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If Uber is lower-priced, then more people will want it. And if more people want it and can afford it, then you have more cars on the road. And if you have more cars on the road, then your pickup times are lower, your reliability is better. The lower-cost product ends up being more luxurious than the high-end one.
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I like to say time is a luxury.
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China is just so different from the rest of the world.
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In China, the government is involved in business in many different ways. They're involved in media and business. When you go to China, you have to rethink how you're doing everything. You have to become Chinese.
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When you start to automate, you start to do the self-driving thing, you make it much more efficient. When these cars go into self-driving, you start to become a robotics company.
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I was the straight-A student but sort of a little bit of debating my parents all the time, trying to find when they weren't logically correct.
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Every problem is super-interesting and has its own nuances, and you solve it today, but you try to solve it with an architecture. You build a machine to solve the problems that are like it later. And then you move on to the next.
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Adventure with a purpose is what we do.
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