Immigration and openness to refugees is an important part of our country's success and, quite honestly, to Uber's.
I think that's where the world is going. People will not own cars; they'll have a service that takes them where they want to go, when they want to go there. And that's what Uber is.
We need to figure out how to merge political progress with actual progress.
I got really good at negotiating from a place of weakness.
I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling.
We have this culture valued at Uber, which we call the champions' mind-set. And champions' mind-set isn't always about winning. It's about putting everything you have on the field, every ounce of passion and energy you have. And if you get knocked down, overcoming adversity.
Competition is fun.
As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal.
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.
The way I try to simplify my job is that I have two lists - I have a list of all the crazy, interesting problems that I get to solve every day or that need to be solved, and I have a crazy list of things I'd like to invent. And I kind of just prioritize them and work my way down, and try to simplify what I do when managing a big company.
I like to say time is a luxury.
Based on my experience, I would say that rather than taking lessons in how to become an entrepreneur, you should jump into the pool and start swimming.
China is just so different from the rest of the world.
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.
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.
What we like to say is that the vision for Uber is the cross between lifestyle and logistics.
Hamilton is my favorite political entrepreneur.
In my first start-up, I didn't get any salary for four years, so I had to move back with my parents.
Every Uber employee should be proud of the culture we have and what we will build together over time.
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.
