If you're operating from strong principles, you can compromise when the person on the other side is operating from principles you respect.
I'm a natural-born trust-buster.
I am from Los Angeles, and my parents are from Los Angeles.
I prefer building rather than fundraising.
Sports uplift us. It's celebratory, gives us optimism and joy.
If somebody can offer value at a cheaper price, they should. But that also means Uber should, too.
Uber riders are the most affluent, influential people in their cities.
We're in the business of delivering cars in five minutes, but once you can deliver cars in five minutes, there's a lot of things you can deliver in five minutes.
In many ways, we look at Uber as the safety net for a city.
When people start to perceive you as the big guy, you're not allowed to be scrappy, fierce.
I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress.
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.
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.
There's a harsh reality to situations where demand outstrips supply.
A regulator is supposed to create and enforce a standard.
I have been trying to understand the regulators.
In order to keep the love going, you want to keep it fun.
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.
Some city-council people are really awesome, but most are uninspired.
You want supply to always be full, and you use price to basically either bring more supply on or get more supply off, or get more demand in the system or get some demand out.
