Adventure with a purpose is what we do.
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Travis Kalanick
Profession:
Businessman
Born:
1976
Nationality:
American
Quotes by Travis Kalanick
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When people start to perceive you as the big guy, you're not allowed to be scrappy, fierce.
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You have to find ways to find that center, to find that balance, to find sanity, because again, we are getting bigger, and people look at us that way. We have to find that new balance.
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Surge pricing only kicks in in order to maximize the number of trips that happen and therefore reduce the number of people that are stranded.
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I call it dark energy. If you are unreliable, customers just disappear.
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There's a harsh reality to situations where demand outstrips supply.
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As much as I'd love to give everybody a really cheap option, it's just simply not possible in certain sorts of extreme events... I guarantee that our strategy on surge pricing is the optimal way to get as many people home as possible.
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A regulator is supposed to create and enforce a standard.
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I have been trying to understand the regulators.
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I used to be a computer engineer, and I can make really good code, and we can make systems that work really well, and we can make the application a great experience, but when you have to translate bits to atoms, you need folks who are used to working with city governments, with state governments, and so I like to say we're in a political campaign.
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We have to bring out the truth about how dark and dangerous and evil the taxi side is.
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In order to keep the love going, you want to keep it fun.
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I'm a passionate entrepreneur. I'm like fire and brimstone sometimes. And so there are times when I'll go - I'll get too into the weeds and too into the debate, because I'm so passionate about it.
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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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We want to get to the point that using Uber is cheaper than owning a car.
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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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The folks who rock Uber value their time; they appreciate nice things with a taste of luxury and loathe inefficiency.
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Uber exists because of mobile telephones.
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I like to say time is a luxury.
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If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you're gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been seen.
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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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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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The world isn't always great.
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We always find a way to learn and to get better.
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When you are talking about, 'I will lose my sanity for real,' that's when it's time to move on.
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Millennials aren't buying cars anymore. They don't want to drive. They don't want to own these cars. They don't want that inconvenience.
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If you get stuck too much with the way you want the world to be, you will find that the world passes you by.
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You can bend reality, but you cannot break it.
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Every Uber employee should be proud of the culture we have and what we will build together over time.
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I believe in creating a workplace where a deep sense of justice underpins everything we do.
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Every day, I get a little smarter.
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I'm a geek. A techie geek.
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I know about traffic.
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I like pralines-and-cream ice cream.
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Uber is a global business. We don't think just in terms of the U.S.
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We're just technologists.
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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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I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling.
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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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I talk a lot about justice. I'm about it. I'm also about civil disobedience.
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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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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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