Uber

"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"

"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."

Mark Manson

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"Uber rides cost less than the gas would. What?"

Tom Bilyeu

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"So those expectations between Uber, DoorDash, you know, the software internet economy has just radically changed people's expectations."

"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."

"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."

"Uber and DoorDash are now letting agents go in there and order your burrito or your car."

"I'm glad my Uber to the airport is probably 15 dollars cheaper, because a ride to JFK is already expensive enough."

"You use Uber today. The last time I used it, it prompted me to use Stripe Link instead of using a credit card."

This Week in Startups

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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."

"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..."

"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."

Riley Brown

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"Please make an app that looks like Uber. Exactly like Uber. A mockup app."

Jason Lemkin

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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."

Peter Diamandis

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"Cyber Cab is running about 50% cheaper than Uber for comparable trips. Uber is partnering with traditional taxi fleets to complement and compete against Waymo's expanding robo taxi service."

Salim Ismail

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"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."

"Uber was basically the difference — they were pissing money away, but the unit economics were the same, just subsidized. You were still getting a service from A to B and paying a much lower cost."

"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."

"Whether it's the way that we use any single one of our apps, whether it's Uber or anything, it's all this enormous amount of personal data that we are just feeding into a corporate entity."

John Coogan

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"Many Uber riders regard the full self-driving experience as smoother and less likely to cause indigestion and sickness in the backseat versus watching a driver who has a Tesla who isn't that experienced."

"People talk a big game about privacy concerns, and then they will give Uber all of their data. With a thin layer of AI, you could pretty easily determine if someone just terminated a pregnancy, their HIV status, if they're having affairs, their se..."

"This may just be another Uber, another Suno, another Shield AI."

"Around that time I also talked to a bunch of other companies — we're in touch with Coinbase, in touch with Uber, in touch with other tech companies that are on the very early adoption edge of giving tens of thousands or more employees broad coding..."

"It's certainly open my phone and open Uber and say, 'Do you want a ride to Circa Sports?' Somehow it always knows that's where I'm headed when I get off the plane in Las Vegas."

"In building Uber, Travis basically ignored the regulators and built his service anyway, built a fan base of customers who he could use against the regulators that were trying to shut him down."

"The Uber map is an example of competing on a neglected dimension. Riding in an Uber is more or less the same as riding in any other taxi. What Uber completely transformed was the experience of booking and waiting for a taxi — and at the other end ..."

"Now I take Waymo more than I take Uber."

"If you're Uber, you got to be scared. I mean Waymo is just eating into ride sharing."

"We're still using Uber and Airbnb and Spotify — we're still using those things from that time period."

"We knew someone who was driving for Uber, and really friendly person, and in the conversation he would bring up that he's doing Uber to help pay for a future child."

"How long can you wait for an Uber before losing it? Because we've lost the ability to have delayed gratification."

"I jumped in an Uber and I drove here last night just to make sure I knew where the building was."

"I always think of the investment he did in Uber as the absolute quintessential perfect venture investment."

"It may not be a margin though, they may be burning investor cash sort of like an Uber type model. Grab market share growth."

20VC with Harry Stebbings

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"You can compare it when Uber started growing and in many places there was the push back right so oh what's happening it's something new we it's moving too fast."

"Uber, for example, just blew through its entire 2026 AI budget in just 4 months."

Chris Koerner

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"Companies like Apple, Microsoft, Uber, HubSpot, they all use them, and so do independent entrepreneurs such as ourselves."

"That's the large distinction of how we're powered by a talent network in the same way that Uber is powered by a driver network"

Steven Bartlett

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"I sat here with Dara, the CEO of Uber, and he was quite clear that the 9 million Uber riders won't have their jobs anymore."

TBPN

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"Uber went back and forth on, well, we blew through our budget, but a lot of people were saying, well, if they set a budget in 2025 for their token spend in 2026"

"Is this an Uber Lyft where one of the providers takes 90%? Is this an AWS Google Cloud?"

"Now that I get apparently there there's a lot less death due to drone driving because of Uber."

"After everything we've done, we feel like peanuts compared to what people in the US have done sometimes, right? You know, like Uber or Door Dash or Airbnb. So, a long way to go still."

Tony Robbins

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"There's 8 million truck drivers, Uber drivers, and taxi drivers"

Greg Isenberg

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"So, if you think of mobile apps, Instagram, TikTok, Uber, DoorDash, you name it. You basically scroll and and then it like feeds you stuff"

Tim Ferriss

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"orders Uber rides to get to his classes"

"The optimization algorithms that we're writing for our plants look very similar to the optimization algorithms that are in dog walking apps and Uber ride optimization."

Chris Williamson

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"You're going to open Slack. Ah, you open Slack on a Saturday and Uber. Fuck it's okay."

"Or Uber, Lyft way back in the day, right? That might not have been a merger. It might have been an acquisition, but it's like... But all the money that Uber spent on fighting Lyft for all those years maybe would have been better spent just buying ..."

"Airbnb, Uber, a few of us. We went on these crazy rocket ships"

David Senra

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"Top companies like Ramp, Shopify, 11 Labs, Uber, and DoorDash all use Deal."

"It's like Uber ratings, you know? Some Uber drivers, they won't shut the fuck up."

"Maybe they got big like Airbnb and Uber were really big"

"You think about, you know, a lot of the big consumer technology companies today, they were really born out of mobile, right? Whether it you know, it's Uber, you know, Snapchat, some of those early generation companies"

"He was not able to find a job and was doing odd jobs and Uber to make ends meet which would have been unthinkable."

Vanessa Van Edwards

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"Go talk to a Uber driver or a Lyft driver. That way you have a lot of low-pressure practice."

"The company that I worked for, they were hugely disrupted by Uber and that whole boom."

"seeing, you know, in SF, the Ubers and the Twitters of the world and Postmates"

"Those are our Airbnb superhosts. Those are our Uber drivers. Those are our Wikipedia article writers."

Andrew Huberman

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"Uber drivers, I'm not saying riding in your Uber with your terrible air freshener is going to prevent people from getting pregnant."

Lenny's Podcast

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"you think Facebook or Uber or DoorDash early on, they understand this viscerally where scaling this much just brings a lot of challenges"

"We think the promise of autonomous is exactly that, which is it's just not going to make sense for you to own your own car. As these cars proliferate, the cost of autonomous is going to come down."

"Yeah, we work with companies like Uber, Instacart."

"Yi our CFO he was you know the divisional CFO of Uber during COVID the whole business disappeared overnight and he had to figure it out"

"If I'm going somewhere, I'm Ubering. And I think for us to see Partiful reach that stage even though in many ways we're still early on our journey"

"Let them still pay for your Uber cuz it's on their credit card."

"You can push it on DoorDash, Uber, and GrubHub if you want as well"

"Whereas if you drive an Uber, your income is going to be up and down a lot more, but you're actually more resilient or antifragile"

"People said the same thing about Uber who's going to drive a stranger in their car who's puking in the back seat"

All-In Podcast

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"Uber had a time 2010. But if Uber puts that in the app, come on."

"Earlier today, I challenged Dara from Uber to invest in the Abundance X-Prize as a investor and a competitor"

"You look at the Iranian diaspora in America. Just our fellow friends who many people know Dara at Uber, myself at Uber of course."

"It's exactly like Uber, right? Like if you have all these unused cars that aren't doing anything, you might as well put them on the Uber network and drive around to make some money, right? Same thing just with storage."

"Uber takes 20% of the ride and they match people together"

"So taxi drivers being replaced by Uber and hotels and Airbnb and other types of smart technologies like that."