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.
I really love numbers.
The folks who rock Uber value their time; they appreciate nice things with a taste of luxury and loathe inefficiency.
Uber exists because of mobile telephones.
If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you're gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been seen.
Adventure with a purpose is what we do.
We're just technologists.
Imagine if you put many, many years of your life into something and were passionate about it, and you spent every waking moment putting love into it and trying to make it better, and people didn't understand that. You'd want them to.
What I like to say when you get into something that feels like a bubble or, at least, feels irrational is that you still want to build a company that has a strong discipline, business-building culture.
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.
Uber is a global business. We don't think just in terms of the U.S.
Even before you get to self-driving vehicles, there's just a huge amount of positive things that happen to cities when you do ridesharing.
I talk a lot about justice. I'm about it. I'm also about civil disobedience.
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.
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.
I think a lot of folks feel like Uber was a company they missed out on. Sequoia passed on us three times.
I like pralines-and-cream ice cream.
I know about traffic.
I'm a geek. A techie geek.
Every day, I get a little smarter.
