Zitat des Tages von Travis Kalanick:
I don't believe that you can make decisions on anything without having all of the details.
If you're operating from strong principles, you can compromise when the person on the other side is operating from principles you respect.
If Uber wants to catch up to Google and be the leader in autonomy, we have to have the best minds. We have to have all the great minds.
If you get stuck too much with the way you want the world to be, you will find that the world passes you by.
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.
Uber is a global business. We don't think just in terms of the U.S.
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.
Competition is good.
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.
I believe in creating a workplace where a deep sense of justice underpins everything we do.
Safety is number one at Uber... so we make sure the system is in place so riders get the safest ride possible.
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.
Uber exists because of mobile telephones.
You have to be willing to stand up for what you believe in, and the rule of law is one of those things.
I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling.
Sports uplift us. It's celebratory, gives us optimism and joy.
If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you're gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been seen.
I call it dark energy. If you are unreliable, customers just disappear.
There is a core independence and dignity you get when you control your own time.
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.
The ability for somebody to put their arm out and get a taxi is fundamentally different then having a 10-minute pickup time. It just is.
If somebody can offer value at a cheaper price, they should. But that also means Uber should, too.
As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal.
I talk a lot about justice. I'm about it. I'm also about civil disobedience.
I like to say time is a luxury.
If there was a mobility service that's cheaper than owning a car, more reliable, and you get to sit in the back seat instead of being stressed out in the front seat, why would you own a car?
We want transportation as reliable as running water.
We need to figure out how to merge political progress with actual progress.
Ultimately, progress and innovation win.
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.
I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years.
What we like to say is that the vision for Uber is the cross between lifestyle and logistics.
I'm a geek. A techie geek.
You can bend reality, but you cannot break it.
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.
Adventure with a purpose is what we do.