When people start to perceive you as the big guy, you're not allowed to be scrappy, fierce. — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
Some city-council people are really awesome, but most are uninspired. — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
There's hundreds of millions of people that are card members at AmEx - all of them should be using Uber. — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
Uber riders are the most affluent, influential people in their cities. — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
Surge pricing only kicks in in order to maximize the number of trips that happen and therefore reduce the number of people… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
Imagine if you put many, many years of your life into something and were passionate about it, and you spent every waking… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
If you can make it economical for people to get out of their cars or sell their cars, and turn transportation into… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
There has to be a large number of people and routes that are lined up together. One part is liquidity and the… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
As much as I'd love to give everybody a really cheap option, it's just simply not possible in certain sorts of extreme… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, it's not the money that allows you to do new things. It's the growth and the ability… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
The world is going to go self-driving and autonomous. Because a million fewer people are going to die a year. Traffic in… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
I think that's where the world is going. People will not own cars; they'll have a service that takes them where they… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
If Uber is lower-priced, then more people will want it. And if more people want it and can afford it, then you… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
Think of a world where there is no ride-sharing; people are driving themselves to work. You now have 30 people being served… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
In my first start-up, I didn't get any salary for four years, so I had to move back with my parents. — Travis Kalanick Copy Share
Safety is number one at Uber... so we make sure the system is in place so riders get the safest ride possible. — Travis Kalanick Copy Share
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… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share
I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling. — Travis Kalanick Copy Share
When theres no other dude in the car, the cost of taking an Uber anywhere becomes cheaper than owning a vehicle. So the magic… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share
If Uber wants to catch up to Google and be the leader in autonomy, we have to have the best minds. We have to… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share
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… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share
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,… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share
Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That’s why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share
