Uber
2 creators use or recommend it
Ride-sharing and transportation platform
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How Uber compares
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Waymo
Direct rival
Google's self-driving taxi service
Waymo is cheaper and pulling riders away. Peter says Waymo is cheaper; Osvald now takes Waymo more. Qasar warns Uber should be scared.
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Waymo is cheaper and pulling riders away. Peter says Waymo is cheaper; Osvald now takes Waymo more. Qasar warns Uber should be scared.
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"Obviously Uber is a first love here — 150 billion dollar company, it's super cheap right now. Trust me, I know. I still got some Uber shares left."
Considered alongside Waymo, Rivian, and Lucid for transportation category
"I couldn't get an Uber, and I just ordered an Uber and a Lyft at the same time and the Lyft was coming from a different direction."
Used alongside Lyft when Waymo was unavailable
"If there is an issue, I take an Uber Black, but I don't have a car anymore in the Bay Area."
Secondary option to Waymo; Cybercab described as 40-50% cheaper than Uber
"The same thing when Uber was made illegal in France — I was like, if you're an entrepreneur, don't move to France. These are telltale signs of what cities are on the singularity curve and which are not."
Used as an analogy for regulatory resistance to innovation alongside Waymo/robo taxi situation
"I've been using Waymo pretty regularly here. It's much cheaper than Uber."
Waymo is cheaper than Uber
short-term home rental marketplace
Both are lasting companies from the early App Store era. Tomasz says Uber's name sounds above the law; Airbnb feels friendlier to regulators.
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Both are lasting companies from the early App Store era. Tomasz says Uber's name sounds above the law; Airbnb feels friendlier to regulators.
"Uber — that sort of sounds like a bad name from Germany sometime in the 1930s. What are you exactly, above the law?"
Compared unfavorably to Airbnb's friendlier brand name in terms of regulatory perception
"We're still using Uber and Airbnb and Spotify — we're still using those things from that time period."
Cited alongside Airbnb and Spotify as lasting companies from the iPhone/App Store era, drawing a parallel to foundation AI models
"Airbnb, Uber, Spotify — it goes on and on. We're still using Uber and Airbnb and Spotify from that time period."
Grouped with Airbnb and Spotify as successful early-stage investments
e-commerce and cloud giant
Uber faces insurance and lawsuit risks directly from its drivers. Amazon uses subcontractors to keep that exposure at a distance.
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Uber faces insurance and lawsuit risks directly from its drivers. Amazon uses subcontractors to keep that exposure at a distance.
"Well, what if we have Uber do that too then, JCal? Uber was basically castigated for the exact same thing using independent contractors instead of making them full-fledged employees."
Compared to Amazon — both faced pressure over independent contractor driver classification
"Uber has been castigated for the exact same thing — using independent contractors instead of making them full-fledged employees. Uber actually has massive insurance exposure, massive lawsuits that they have to contend with for what those..."
Compared to Amazon's DSP model; Uber has direct insurance exposure unlike Amazon's subcontracting shield
"This is exactly like the unions that were trying to protect the taxis. Taxi drivers were trying to keep Uber out, but Uber is better for the consumer, and so Uber ended up winning out."
Compared to traditional taxi industry and used as analogy for Amazon's subcontractor delivery model
What creators say
"I was in the back of an Uber and I got so much done on that one ride. The magic of Uber is you get back time"
More from Rahul Vohra →"I started driving Uber cuz I didn't go back to work. I've been on disability for over a year. I'mma drive Uber. Probably pick up a producer, a director."
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"So those expectations between Uber, DoorDash, you know, the software internet economy has just radically changed people's expectations."
More from Tom Bilyeu →+3 more mentions from Tom
"Peters arranged an Uber to bring her to his family home."
"People doing side-by-side comparisons, some showing even 50% savings compared to Uber."
"She would go to the bathroom and pump more milk, and then I would collect it at lunch and I'd send it up in an Uber up to the house."
More from Billy Evans →"I remember last year at South by Southwest, I was trying to get an Uber and my phone was confidently telling me that I was about three or four blocks away from where I actually was."
More from Carter Fowler →"Uber and DoorDash are now letting agents go in there and order your burrito or your car."
More from Jason Calacanis →+5 more mentions from Jason
"Zipline just did a partnership with Uber. I'm an investor in both of those companies obviously and they are going to do a million deliveries a day."
"Uber has been castigated for the exact same thing — using independent contractors instead of making them full-fledged employees. Uber actually has ..."
"I'm glad my Uber to the airport is probably 15 dollars cheaper, because a ride to JFK is already expensive enough."
More from Jack Raines →"You use Uber today. The last time I used it, it prompted me to use Stripe Link instead of using a credit card."
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"Obviously Uber is a first love here — 150 billion dollar company, it's super cheap right now. Trust me, I know. I still got some Uber shares left."
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"I couldn't get an Uber, and I just ordered an Uber and a Lyft at the same time and the Lyft was coming from a different direction."
"Drive an Uber, drive a DoorDash, whatever it is. Let's get you stable, safe, and fed."
"That same friend group had one person order an Uber, but then that Uber to go around to all the six people and coordinate, 'We'll pick you up in 10 minutes and then the other person, we'll pick you up in five minutes from here.' And I found the op..."
More from Noah Shinn →"If I order my delivery and my Uber Door Dash for our dear American counterparts through Instinct, that Uber banner that's now advertising something becomes worthless."
More from Harry Stebbings →
"Please make an app that looks like Uber. Exactly like Uber. A mockup app."
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"If there is an issue, I take an Uber Black, but I don't have a car anymore in the Bay Area."
More from Jason Lemkin →+2 more mentions from Jason
"Benchmark's best fund had both WeWork and Uber in it, in about the 2012-13 fund. Uber made Benchmark roughly 640x versus around 25x with WeWork."
"I think Uber announced today they're just going to give everyone 1,500 bucks a month"
"Uber — that sort of sounds like a bad name from Germany sometime in the 1930s. What are you exactly, above the law?"
"Uber's tough because you have to figure out what your effective dollars per hour are after depreciation and gas and all that stuff. So I think maybe Uber is not worth it."
"another one of my kids we just found out is spending £100 a day on Deliveroo and Uber"
"If you complain about not having money and you're taking Uber four times a day, you're fucked up."
"I think Uber and Lyft are the most extreme examples of pure substitutes and a lot of the price has been competed away."
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"Uber started in 2010. We created a system that was inevitable. Cities, countries didn't matter — we made that a thing. Our goal was to make Uber the safest place in a city, and I think we accomplished that."
More from Travis Kalanick →+4 more mentions from Travis
"Uber was network for the physical world, digitized transportation. A lot of the things that would have happened with Uber over time are things we'r..."
"We never did that at Uber. We basically never proposed or pushed any rule that would be beneficial to us versus somebody else. We always were tryin..."
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