Travis Kalanick

We're just technologists.

— Travis Kalanick

Being Uber means being efficient.

— Travis Kalanick

I'm a natural-born trust-buster.

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I like pralines-and-cream ice cream.

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I know about traffic.

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I like to say time is a luxury.

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Every day, I get a little smarter.

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I really love numbers.

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I got really good at negotiating from a place of weakness.

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Acknowledging mistakes and learning from them are the first steps.

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There's a harsh reality to situations where demand outstrips supply.

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I prefer building rather than fundraising.

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Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does pay for therapy.

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Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote.

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As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal.

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I have been trying to understand the regulators.

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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…

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Every Uber employee should be proud of the culture we have and what we will build together over time.

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I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling.

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Based on my experience, I would say that rather than taking lessons in how to become an entrepreneur, you should jump into…

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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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If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you're gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been…

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If you get stuck too much with the way you want the world to be, you will find that the world passes…

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There are 100's of thousands of Uber partners, and we are creating 50,000 jobs per month.

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You have to find ways to find that center, to find that balance, to find sanity, because again, we are getting bigger,…

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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…

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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…

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If you bring that scrappy fierceness with you it works until you get big, when really pushing all the way really feels…

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What I like to say when you get into something that feels like a bubble or, at least, feels irrational is that…

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In China, the government is involved in business in many different ways. They're involved in media and business. When you go to…

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You want supply to always be full, and you use price to basically either bring more supply on or get more supply…

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Imagine if you put many, many years of your life into something and were passionate about it, and you spent every waking…

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If Uber is lower-priced, then more people will want it. And if more people want it and can afford it, then you…

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The way I try to simplify my job is that I have two lists - I have a list of all the…

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Limos, from the beginning of time, they know who they're picking up, they usually have a credit card on file, they know…

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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…

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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…

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Competition is fun.

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Competition is good.

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I've had failures myself before Uber.

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