Travis Kalanick | All-In Summit 2024
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the reason that he was kicked out is
because of this toxic culture some big
news that took place on Christmas Eve if
you missed it Travis kenck planning to
leave the board at Uber and when he
showed me what he was working on I
immediately said hey can I invest a
popular 70 billion doll ride sharing
company is searching for a new CEO to
take the wheel so you want to talk about
structure being completely screwy
competition is good I'll bet my entire
network that Uber will be here and
thriving in 10 years you're you're at
War prematurely with your customers
sorry about
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that all right
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everybody my
guy
um uh I can't believe I can't believe I
get to sit down with one of the most
famous investors in Uber
I'm honored I'm honored to be
here
um we we wanted to have a surprise for
you every day uh I've been you know
Travis and I have been friends for 25
years um the first time I interviewed
Travis was 1999 I was doing a little
magazine out here digital Coast reporter
you were doing a little company called
scour um which was a peer-to-peer
Network to share
files um and you were 22 years old I was
28 I think if we put those two numbers
together just don't let people do the
math you know it's just like just keep
moving was a while ago 1999 um and um I
just
remember the enthusiasm drive and fire
that you had at that time and it always
struck me I said to myself I don't know
if he's going to win on this one I'm
pretty sure he's going to get his ass
handed to him in fact correct correct um
but I know this guy's going to win big
in the future and and sure enough uh we
got to go on a great journey together
with Uber and now again with Cloud
kitchens and I every year when we're
hanging out I
say since you left Uber I say you know
whenever you're ready let's have a
conversation and here we are and then
you call me every year I call you every
year if you're ready just and I'm just a
block away from
you you're Alma moer UCLA let's go come
on I'm like all right let's let's go and
this year you said okay so here we are
um let's chop it up let's talk about
Cloud kitchens you have since uh you
left Uber been working extremely hard
and quietly on cloud kitchens what is
the vision what is cloud kitchens for
people who don't
know well uh
so yeah I mean it it is kind of funny
when you go from being a tech guy to a
kitchen guy I mean that's interesting um
look food has I think we all know like
food is it's at the center of the Human
Experience the center of humanity and
just just how we live but it's got a lot
of
problems Health cost convenience like
all that stuff and it could be a hell of
a lot better and so um of course in my
last at my last gig we did Uber Eats it
was a starting point but the difference
with food versus rides is that the
infrastructure was already there you had
a bunch of cars that were 98% unutilized
and so you just had to light it up but
to do food right you needed to build the
infrastructure and so the mission for
our company is infrastructure for better
food and the idea is like can you get
the preparation and delivery of food so
high quality and most importantly so
cost efficient that it starts to
approach the cost of you going to the
grocery store if that happens you do to
the kitchen what Uber did to the car
and so the quiet part is like we go and
buy real estate we do
construction we then go talk to the
center point of what matters in food
which is the restaurant tour the
entrepreneur who's making it who does it
just because I mean it's a labor of love
you got to have a deep passion for food
and a deep passion for people because
otherwise you couldn't survive in that
world uh but these guys are like like
true blue entrepreneurs and they are our
customer and you do it from their
perspective and you help them get their
vision for what they're doing out there
and do it super super efficiently um and
so we like to say we serve those who
serve others we're not the restaurant
we're the guys
underneath and uh currently I think we
have real estate we we have facilities
in all the major cities in 30 countries
around the world um we also have a
software division so we have hundreds of
thousands of restaurants using our
software stack um and we have a robotics
division um that you know got going with
a lot of the original sort of uber atg
guys Advanced Technology Group the the
autonomy guys so we got that crew
together and um have really you know
robots that are going to that
already are out there but are going to
be out there in a really big way over
the coming you know quarters and years
so the premise of uber was hey press a
button we move you or anything from
point A to point B what a profound
simple but profound um insight as an
entrepreneur and the Insight here is
hey getting you food uh quickly
efficiently and then making it easier
for a restaurant tour to pop up a
restaurant tell us the economics of a
food brand um when Jade and I and the
family were out here here on vacation
over the summer at Manhattan Beach we
had a wonderful experience of ordering
gwenneth Pal's Cloud kitchen and these
new brands great um yeah great great new
brands popping up um talk about the
economics for that food entrepreneur I
mean It's just tough I think most of us
know a restaurant tour some of us may
have even tried to do a restaurant or be
a part of it in some fashion I like I
said it's a labor of love but like your
big costs are going to be labor let's
call it between you know let's call it
30% but it can range from like 25 to 40%
of your overall Revenue occupancy which
is the the physical space itself uh
let's call it between six and 12% of
Revenue uh supply chain is
30% uh marketing let's call it 10 um I
know I'm missing something somewhere but
those are the that's the big stuff and a
successful restaurant's going to have a
10 % profit margin and be really pumped
about that wow um and so yeah that's
just how it works um you know one thing
I wanted to say just sort of the high
level to like sort of how do you connect
the dots on like sort of where
Innovation is going is that um you know
my sweet spot is digitizing the physical
world and you know you could take that
to mean a lot of different things but
it's basically treating atoms like
bits and so we know the bits world is a
computer okay computers well CPU
manipulates the bits storage stores the
bits Network moves bits from point A to
point B but if you're treating atoms
like bits you go CPU manipulates the
bits what manipulates
atoms that's
manufacturing storage stores bits what
stores atoms that's Real Estate Network
moves bits from point A to point
B what uh yeah what moves atoms well
that's transport of logistics and so
these are the three sort of core
Computing resources in a atoms based
computer and you can say my last gig was
so much about the network for the
physical world but there's just a huge
amount of innovation left in compute and
storage for the physical world also
known as
digitized manufacturing and digitized
real estate and so our company is really
sort of
building atoms based computers and sort
of our first computer is really a food
computer so that's kind of how we think
about it yeah um let's take a look at
the video of um some of the robots uh
that are making food in Cloud kitchens
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and that's our lab we're doing that in
house all in house yeah all this stuff
is in house
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so we call this part like look ma no
hands right so once the dispensers are
full of
food nobody touches it and what comes
out on a conveyor belt is bags of food
that get delivered amazing right so you
know LED
bag sealed you get the general idea so
now you have a a restaurant that can
asynchronously produce for consumers
from what labor is doing and the labor
is primarily on the on the prep side of
things so we see there's kind of vessels
there um I'm assuming they have
ingredients in them the bowl goes by
stuff gets dropped in organized covered
put in a bag label goes on the human has
no part in that except for maybe
preparing and and filling prep let's say
you have prep in the morning this
machine can run for hours without
anybody there um and so you know there's
interesting you know so so it just
becomes a more efficient thing so the if
you want to do to the kitchen what Uber
did to the car you have to make sure two
things happen one is that you need the
logistics the movement of food needs to
go to the cost of that needs to go to
zero this is a autonomous vehicles
things along these lines and then the
production of food must also get uh sort
of roboticized mechanized essentially
those two things happen and then we can
always cook but it can be out of choice
and um you know I like to say I like a I
I like horses but I don't ride a horse
to work and so um you can get higher
quality food to the people at a lower
cost and just give people the most
precious of commodities
back which is called time to do all the
things all the other things in life that
they love and you're strategically
placing these Cloud
kitchens um in I get I would assume very
lowcost real estate but that's at very
key uh locations that make it very
efficient to uh deliver the food yeah
yeah so on the software side we we have
a software stack that like I said
hundreds of of thousands of restaurants
use we're seeing 18% of all online
delivery in the US as an example our
software is touching so because we see
where all of the delivery is we know
where to put a delivery only restaurant
facility um and so we find distressed
real estate or sort of unique situations
where it's hard to develop and we've
built a competence in sort of turning
that into a 30 kitchen facility that we
then lease those kitchens to restaurant
tours let's talk about the Playbook this
is something you worked on really hard
at Uber hiring Josh in New York will in
La we had a podcast and you were set on
that podcast years and years ago hey I'm
looking for some people to run some
cities to run Uber and you found this
eclectic group of Samurai and you let
them go um and man they cooked yeah talk
to me about that management principle
and your management principles hey be
pumped you know and and bringing that
enthusiasm that fire and letting those
cities cook because most people have
this top down they do things
sequentially you've really and and in
those early days got more and more
emboldened and excited about doing
things in parallel and letting people
make mistakes in those regions and
learning they could I remember Josh
started doing messenger delivery you let
other people deliver kittens for a day
to an office to that was a funny thing
yeah JD Vance that's when he uninstalled
Uber um no kittens um but cookies
whatever it was ice cream trucks yeah
talk about that model of letting you
know a th flowers bloom letting these
Samurai go crazy so look we had a a
cultural value at Uber called let
Builders build and I'm sure it was there
are other companies that I think may
have said that before us uh but we we
certainly took a hold of that and look
as it related to our GM model and and
how to empower GMS to do well it starts
with who is the person and we I always
felt that the the magic making happens
when you
cross uh sort
of uh creative instincts with
analytical capabilities or prowess
really so we would just design tests
that sort of simulated what it would be
like working together that tested their
creative stuff their secret their secret
sauce and creativity but would create
problems where it was crossed with the
necessity to analytically solve problems
got it and so you put those two things
together with a hungry person that maybe
just got out their MBA or let's say
equivalent and they're fired up and
ready to go and you Empower them and
then you put
very simple controls to make sure that
they're check that like like like
waypoints that in order to go further
they have to pass that test once they're
in the job and just simple things like
we would have a pricing call in the
early days of uber where you cannot put
it up in the app until you pass the
pricing call the first 30 cities I was
on that pricing call and the thing about
price when it comes to Transportation
it's a amalgamation of all strategy
across everything across what does your
cars look like what's the supply the
supply uh what does uh what does Metro
or public uh public transport look like
what is cost of Labor in that City uh
what are their General alternatives for
getting around what are regulations like
ultimately becomes a service with a
price you pass that and then you run you
get to run a
city but that means the previous 30 days
or 90 days when they're just doing lots
of stuff I don't have to worry and then
they get to that point they pass the
test they know what the criteria for
passing the test is so it forces them
into the right mode right let's talk
about strategy you know one of the great
privileges of of getting to be involved
you know in your journey for a little
bit was we would talk sometimes late at
night weekends uh when there were really
dicey strategy moments and I'd ask you
what you're thinking and we would just
jam out and a couple of those
conversations I remember calling you in
a panic after having taken a lift a ride
chair and we were only Uber black yeah
and I said trais I just got out of this
[ __ ] thing it's $16 it would have
been 60 I'm pricing sensitive but man
this is going to change everything and
you're like jakow and I said don't you
don't understand J no this is disrup and
you said we're launching it next week we
got it you know it is disruptive and you
saw you know the the Lincoln Town Cars
were so brilliant you know because there
were such high margins but you saw the
disruptiveness of of the rering thing
and then surge pricing we had a big
debate about tipping let's talk about
some of those seminal moments in product
design yeah and
competition because this was not
happening in a vacuum people forget
there was sidecar there was lift yeah
and then there were Regulators this was
a war yeah so I mean kind of a funny
story I'm not sure if I've ever told you
this you were you were only six weeks
behind Zuck right which is I first heard
about Lyft from Zuck H and he's
like yo
yo I think you have a situation on your
hands and like Su would sort of do that
like with like a little [ __ ] with you
kind of sit yeah kind of like that yeah
he's he's a puck
yeah and I'm like thank
you and um but the thing was was look it
was at the beginning that was like they
called their rides donation it was a
donation thing it was non-commercial
because there was no insurance there was
no regulation there was basically just
citizen giving another citizen a ride
across town and we didn't do anything
about it for 9 months because we were
already getting our asses hand handed to
us and we were doing the legal thing and
so I'm like dude like we're we got like
I got threatened by the city of San
Francisco and the state of California 3
months after we launched Uber with 90
days in jail for every ride that had
occurred yeah so then this thing is like
it's a donation I swear and by the way
if you don't give the donation they
suggest then you get kicked off the
system yeah right so we're like H we're
not going to do that and we saw Lyft
eating our market share up from the
bottom up because they didn't have
insurance or regulation or any of these
other things and then nine months into
it uh the city of San Francisco the
state of California because it's was a
California pu said ah you know it's
totally
fine and then we're like oh [ __ ] so then
we hustled got our thing going which is
called would at the time was called
peer-to-peer ride sharing right um and
then just got working and um um the way
we did it was like the reason we didn't
do it in the first place is because it
was clearly not like legit and but then
California said yes and so I made a PCT
with myself that was like I'm never
going to let this happen again and so
each and every city we went to we would
send we would wait for Lift to launch
and then we would basically say to the
city we'd send them a letter saying
there's this really cool thing called
ride sharing this company called lft is
doing it
um we think it's great but our read of
your regs is like it's probably not
allowed because you're thoughtful you
want to be thoughtful but if you don't
enforce in the next 30 days we're going
to participate as well great so almost
every city in the US other than two we
can talk about those two by the way but
in all every city in the US other than
two Portland
Vegas we were number two in R
sharing um be for this
reason um and we did this actually
internationally we did it across Europe
we did it everywhere there were other
folks that were out there and we would
talk to the regulatory guys say if
you're going to enforce do it but if
you're not we're going to participate
yeah and that work that's kind of how we
rolled and surch pricing was an
interesting one you know um the
Brilliance of the of the Uber
Marketplace was in many ways tackling
demand
and figuring out a way to get uh
drivers to come out on New Year's Eve
the worst night of their
lives to drive and you came up with a
pretty novel approach which is hey we'll
pay you double we'll pay you triple yeah
and if you don't want to participate in
that as a customer that's fine but we
think availability is more important uh
than necessarily having standardized
pricing and man the world got very very
upset at this
and you and I talked about when you
explained it to me I said that makes
logical sense and I said you know what
we should do we should write a blog post
and that blog post is still up I think
where you just explained it to people I
thought Uber took down all my blog posts
they probably yeah that might be a
little but this blog post where you just
said hey here's how to handle New Year's
Eve leave at this time go back at this
time but we need to get these people on
the road and they deserve to be
compensated so surge pricing there's
another way to say it
now I called it surge pricing on purpose
because I didn't want any body to think
we were trying to deceive them right so
we said surge pricing like it's clear
what's going on um but the other way to
say surge pricing is called the lowest
cost reliable
ride because if surge pricing goes up
too much then you have drivers that
aren't making any money um and by the
way they'll go to the
competition but if surge pricing is
exactly at and by the way if surge
pricing is not enough you're not not
going to be able to get a ride because
too many people are going to want it and
there won't be enough cars sech price in
the right spot it draws enough Supply
in and fends off enough customers and
the market clears so it's the lowest
cost reliable ride and that's why we
knew it was a winner even when all of
the competition and the world generally
was like hating on this idea
anytime we were doing surge pricing and
our competitor wasn't we knew we were
gaining market share because somebody
could just come to us and get a ride
when in the other system they couldn't
so you're proving reliability you're
proving it's the lowest cost reliable
ride that's it yeah um take me to you
know real quick led to a
massive super interesting Logistics
cross with economics problem where at
the peak I mean and I don't know what it
is at Uber today but it was like I don't
know like 150 phds working on this
problem that we just described huh
inside the company yeah which is like
how do you find that lowest cost
reliable ride is a very very difficult
problem in a live Logistics system like
this let's talk about Regulators in
relation to people being independent
contractors this is when I realized the
Press was acting
without good faith data or logic and as
a former journalist you know it was kind
of eye openening to me to be on the
other side of the table and watching
this happened because we knew full well
based on driver data that they loved
their jobs at Uber because they had Free
Will and they could go and do any other
job they wanted and let's be clear the
average Uber driver during my you know
let's say at the end of my tenure was
eight hours a week so they clearly like
it clearly a side gig yeah side hustle
and they wanted the
flexibility over everything else work
when I want don't work when I want and
then these
Union politicians and everything said no
and the people who own the medallions
and this is a cobal of really bad actors
who were saying no they have to work a
shift and they have to go work for
somebody who owns a medallion who gets
50 60 70% of the economics and they
portrayed us or you as the bad guy in
all this and this was the exact opposite
of the
truth so um yeah I mean it was a union
problem which is it's very difficult to
organize people who in this classic area
which is very Union organized called
drivers it's very difficult to organize
them when they choose when they want to
work their office is their own it's
their own like nobody controls it like
there there's just no control and so
other than the control given to the
individual and so it was very
disruptive to the union and their own
business model and so they had to cut it
off at the knees and so that became a
mix of a sort of political discourse and
like a media push crossed with sort of
of
regulatory uh lobbying and like like
trying to make political apparatuses do
what's necessary to constrain it and you
took the approach we will fight there
are wartime CEOs there are peacetime
CEOs I put you in the category with Elon
of wartime CEOs who it does not matter
how many battles you must battle
concurrently we're going to fight
because it's we're on the right side
yeah of History yeah uh but this became
acute the number of battles yeah that
you had to fight the number of fronts
increase take us to the
darkest peak of it because every time I
talked to you I felt fine about it but
other investors other people felt like
hey this is too many battles to wage at
once talk to me about you personally
fighting all those battles I my
perception of you was the more battles
emerged Yeah the more you realized you
were doing the right thing it filled
your bucket it powered you it gave
energy to you to know we were on the
right
side so yeah I you know sort of in
justest I would I would say to folks I'd
be like
so you know I'm not sure how it became
so
controversial that one citizen giving
another citizen aide across town became
such a thing I I'm not sure how that
happened but it did
uh the darkest moment I me the thing is
is like you'd
keep it was almost like we were always
pushing into that
area so like if something became easy
then we'd push elsewhere until that
became hard so it was constant is like I
make the analogy to like
a to teams that we have in different
places then and now like a a world class
marathoner I've never seen a worldclass
marathoner a mile 19
look like he's just honky Dory yeah
right and if he was he's about to
lose so you push right to that edge of
what's possible and if that starts to
get easy you push further now it doesn't
necessar mean you push in exactly that
along that axis it could be in a totally
different area but um as long as the
problems you're
solving are greater than the problems
you're
creating then you're fine when the
problems you're creating are starts
to when the derivative of problems
you're creating is greater than the
derivative of the problems you're
solving then you have a real problem
right and that's when you have to start
pulling back get back to above water and
then go back into it but when I talk
about creating problems I think of it
like think of it as like a math
professor a math profess professor
without a really cool interesting
problem to solve is a sad math
professor and that's how we would think
about it right these we always pushing
to the point where we're sweating yeah
and it's
like not sure and there could be late
nights there could be all nighters it
could be that thing but because we were
doing the right thing because we had
great people in the field who believed
then we could push all the way to that
edge uh only they could be world class
marathoners too only two entrepreneurs I
know have had the audacity to not build
their products in China everybody does
that that's pretty easy but to actually
operate a business in China yeah you and
Elon uh decided we're going to try to
compete him with selling cars inside of
China pretty crazy uh and even crazier
self- driving cars in China wow yeah
okay let's go let's go byd like you're
up against some serious competition and
it's not
exactly um a fair game maybe or there
might be complications to that game um
we had a long conversation about China
and I said to you wow we're burning a
lot of money there what do you what's
the strategy here let me just hear it
from you and uh you said we're we're
going for gold yeah but I mean there's a
lot of fun there I mean look the thing
about doing business in China is it
forces you to rethink everything
everything like if you go into China
thinking you got it you're going to get
your ass handed to you you have to start
first principles Bottoms Up um let's see
where could I go with this um look we
tell me tell everybody the strategy hey
we're going for gold but they're silver
and and you how you looked at the world
in that regard yeah yeah so I'll get
there is that we so a lot of times when
you go in ENT China they're basically
somebody's going you got to have a
partner if you just go and you do your
first exploration trip they' be like you
got to get a partner they're like 50/50
blah blah blah and I'm like why nobody
could tell me why so then we just went
on our own and started building
something and we never saw on the ground
we never saw bias we were treated fairly
on the
ground um
but at some point what I'd say is the
China war went Global and what what I
mean by that is the Chinese government I
think it
was safe there was a there's some
there's some I think it were called safe
like a it was like The Sovereign wealth
of China cic there's like a few things
like that they started investing
hundreds of millions and billions of
dollars in all of our competitors
globally to drain us of money so that it
was harder to compete in
China
they made apple and I'd love to have a
discussion with Tim at some point we had
some interesting words for each other at
this point but they made
Apple uh invest a billion dollars in Dee
and apple doesn't invest anything in
anybody no that's not their like what
was he protecting there there's
something going on
so whole really amazing story there holy
cow anyways uh the Chinese War went
Global and so that's when we had to go
from going for the goal
to making sure we got the silver and
that's when we started negotiating with
de to basically say we had
20% of the of the overall entity of the
merged entity uh but in order to do that
in China that's when we actually had to
push our spend super hard because they
had to be
scared so I think at the
peak uh right be right as we were
negotiating the term sheet we pushed we
were burning
I think it
was $75 million a
week it's a big number yeah that was
that yeah
and but it but we knew we had the deal
but we only have the deal if they're
scared right this is a poker so our
market share was skyrocketing as we did
this
they're pissed and tripping and then ail
who's negot the deal is like just chain
smoking
yeah but that's how you get a deal done
in China right uh and that turned out to
be there it is um that's that's your
wartime CEO right there um that deal we
had invested millions in ch billions in
China at that point and I think we I
think we invested yeah we probably were
around a billion billion and a half and
the DD St at the time when deal got done
was we at 891 yeah something like that
so we turned a bill and a half into
eight or nine I can't remember the exact
math but it's something like that uh
let's talk about in like two years yeah
let's talk about when you got atin U
this was heartbreaking
crushing brutal um you fought hard to
remain in the seat I got out there and
did what I could on the Press front to
try to defend you and and try to keep
you in the seat but we failed yeah uh
and it was brutal and it was
particularly hard on you because you put
your soul into this
company yeah well look I think there's a
little bit more I mean uh you know like
if an
investor is
running a political Oppo campaign
against you for six months sort of
generating a crisis every week for six
months straight it's going to wear you
down and then you know my
this one's hard your mom
passed I
know I was there with you no no it's all
good with you but that's that's when
they went in for the kill uh that I just
couldn't hang yeah bottom line I just
couldn't hang
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yeah
and yeah
it was um it was dark it was dark yeah
so but look I a lot of people go hey are
you pissed off or this thing and I
say um
first I loved it every
minute I loved every minute but when you
fall in love again you don't think about
the ex very much right Cloud kitchen the
X you moved on
and you put all that in there in
in the I I just want to say
like I am proud of everything you did
and and watching you do it and getting
to be there and witness it I learned so
much from you the community learned so
much from you and I think we all owe
like the Playbook I I can tell you the
impact you had on the Next Generation
because you know I never talk about Uber
I brought it up once or twice never talk
I never talk about it I try to keep it
lowkey but I brought it up once or twice
and it was good for my deal flow and I
got to
see I got to see I got I'm so honored to
be here I'm so honored to be here too uh
but I got to see that famous Uber
investor and I mean this sincerely the
number of entrepreneurs who came to me
who said I started this company because
I watch Travis I watched what he did I
want to be Travis you inspired that
generation along with Elon to say I want
to operate in the real world I want to
build something that has an impact and I
am willing to fight and have that
entrepreneurial Spirit which I'm going
to be honest there's a large amount of
entrepreneurs who don't have the fight
in they don't have the dog in them you
got the dog in you you got the fight in
you you know and and that's so rare and
that's why you're so successful it's
because you're willing to fight the
fight
yeah
um you know look we just saw the
Olympics and I know I made that
marathoner analogy before but like every
one of those gold medalists they got the
dog in them there's no way no other way
um we're just playing a different sport
and I think the you know some of the
interesting parts about this sport is
that it's it's not just an individual
thing it's a it's a massive team and
there's stakeholders in cities and
citizens and and all that um it's just
fun you know like a lot of folks go look
you did the Uber thing why are you doing
it again I mean you catched in a lot of
chips you could be just chilling I'm
like look Serena keeps getting on the
court she's totally badass why is she
doing it right you know or take your
favorite
star of anything yeah LeBron's in his 40
what he's 40 now and he he's looks great
out there so it's because they have a
love of the game and it's not just
Showtime that day yeah it's everything
behind the scenes it's working with
people especially in this sport like
again individual stuff is a little
different like you got to I like the
magic of working with magical people
doing it as a crew is where all the good
stuff happens and they and you know they
all keep coming back you know I've seen
a lot of the the the folks who who came
for a second Tour of Duty with you that
speaks volumes as we end here um Dar has
done I got to know him yeah um try to
support the team over there for the
Legacy um and he's he's he's done a
decent job solid job profitable what's
that let's go they went from my 75
million a week to profitable I like it
well I mean it is great the Legacy we
always knew it was easily to make it
profitable people were saying oh it
could never be profitable and you and I
would talk and be like we were raise the
price of dollar profitable like it's not
difficult just do you know look there's
there's an art to that too it's all good
yeah um but yeah like like I
think Uber's gotten to a great place the
profitability is there that's means it's
going to be around now we they've got to
figure out the autonomous thing that's I
think that's the next big challenge to
uh to go after well let me just put it
out
there he's he's going to do his tour
and uh his stour is going to end would
you consider doing what Steve Job did
and coming back and merging Cloud
kitchens with
Uber would you consider it if if if the
opportunity was there or can can you not
go you're saying there's a
chance can you go home I mean if he this
would be the Return of the King this
would be my dream if you came back I
know it's not your dream but it's
mine could you if Cloud kitchens became
part of uber it would be it would be a
trillion dollar company with you back in
that seat would you take the seat again
if if it was
offered would you consider
it well I definitely know who my head of
comms would
be on that note Travis
Kalen my man I love you great job
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This conversation features a detailed interview with Travis Kalanick, the co-founder and former CEO of Uber, regarding his post-Uber venture, CloudKitchens. Kalanick discusses his philosophy on 'digitizing the physical world,' his approach to management and strategy—which emphasizes fighting through challenges, parallel experimentation, and empowering teams—and reflects on the turbulent history of Uber, including navigating regulatory battles, international expansion, and his eventually departure from the company.
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