Travis Kalanick
Quotes by Travis Kalanick
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In my first start-up, I didn't get any salary for four years, so I had to move back with my parents.
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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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Think of a world where there is no ride-sharing; people are driving themselves to work. You now have 30 people being served by 30 cars. Those 30 cars are only served 4% of the day; 96% of the day, they're stored somewhere. Around 20% to 30% of our land is taken up just storing these hunks of metal that we drive around in for 4% of the day.
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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.
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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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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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I've never been derogatory towards taxi drivers.
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Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does pay for therapy.
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We want transportation as reliable as running water.
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Some city-council people are really awesome, but most are uninspired.
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I call it dark energy. If you are unreliable, customers just disappear.
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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.
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Sports uplift us. It's celebratory, gives us optimism and joy.
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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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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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