Travis Kalanick
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.Collection: Car
There's been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront for something that's already legal, you'll never get it.Collection: Legal
There is a core independence and dignity you get when you control your own time.Collection: Independence
After Scour, I started a company called Red Swoosh. The idea was to take those litigants who sued us for a huge amount of money and turn them into customers with the same technology. I wanted to get them to pay me. It was a revenge business.Collection: Technology
We want to get to the point that using Uber is cheaper than owning a car.Collection: Car
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.Collection: Architecture
Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That's why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It's for the experience.Collection: Experience
Acknowledging mistakes and learning from them are the first steps.Collection: Learning
Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote.Collection: Fear
Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote Whatever it is that you’re afraid of, go after it.Collection: Hustle
As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal.Collection: Entrepreneur
In a lot of ways, it's not the money that allows you to do new things. It's the growth and the ability to find things that people want and to use your creativity to target those.Collection: Creativity
Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That’s why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It’s for the experience.Collection: Nice
Our whole goal is to drive the cost of taking an Uber BELOW the cost of owning a car.Collection: Uber
The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It's intense to fight the red tape.Collection: Fighting
We like to think of Uber as the cross between lifestyle and logistics, where lifestyle is what you want and logistics is how you get it there.Collection: Thinking
We have to bring out the truth about how dark and dangerous and evil the taxi side is.Collection: Dark
There are 100's of thousands of Uber partners, and we are creating 50,000 jobs per month.Collection: Jobs
When theres no other dude in the car, the cost of taking an Uber anywhere becomes cheaper than owning a vehicle. So the magic there is, you basically bring the cost below the cost of ownership for everybody, and then car ownership goes away.Collection: Uber
Keep the competitive leads warm, get your deal oversubscribed, because until your deal is done, it's just a nice fantasy in your headCollection: Nice
My politics are: I'm a trustbuster. Very focused. And yeah, I'm pro-efficiency. I want the most economic activity at the lowest price possible. It's good for everybody, it's not red or blue.Collection: Blue
The world is going to go self-driving and autonomous. Because a million fewer people are going to die a year. Traffic in all cities will be gone. Significantly reduced pollution and trillions of hours will be given back to people - quality of life goes way up.Collection: People
If you bring that scrappy fierceness with you it works until you get big, when really pushing all the way really feels uncomfortable...When you're the little guy that's lauded, that's heroic.Collection: Guy
There has to be a large number of people and routes that are lined up together. One part is liquidity and the other part is product - there's a lot that can go wrong.Collection: Numbers
You're asking somebody who has a wife and is really happily married, 'So, what's your next wife going to be like?' And I'm like, 'What?'Collection: Wife