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We're just technologists.
Travis Kalanick
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Imagine if you put many, many years of your life into something and were passionate about it, and you spent every waking moment putting love into it and trying to make it better, and people didn't understand that. You'd want them to.
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I got really good at negotiating from a place of weakness.
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What I like to say when you get into something that feels like a bubble or, at least, feels irrational is that you still want to build a company that has a strong discipline, business-building culture.
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What I've learned as we've gotten bigger is that it's really, really important for us to take all the opportunities to tell our story, because as we grow and have a bigger impact on cities, if we don't tell our story, somebody else will.
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Even before you get to self-driving vehicles, there's just a huge amount of positive things that happen to cities when you do ridesharing.
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If Uber wants to catch up to Google and be the leader in autonomy, we have to have the best minds. We have to have all the great minds.
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If you can make it economical for people to get out of their cars or sell their cars, and turn transportation into a service, it's a pretty big deal.
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We did a year of Uber in San Francisco before we went to a second city. You get those processes down, then you really get started.
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I think a lot of folks feel like Uber was a company they missed out on. Sequoia passed on us three times.
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I like pralines-and-cream ice cream.
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I know about traffic.
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