The world isn't always great.
— Travis Kalanick
When you are talking about, 'I will lose my sanity for real,' that's when it's time to move on.
You can bend reality, but you cannot break it.
Every day, I get a little smarter.
I like pralines-and-cream ice cream.
If you can make it economical for people to get out of their cars or sell their cars, and turn transportation into a service, it's a pretty big deal.
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.
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.
I got really good at negotiating from a place of weakness.
Adventure with a purpose is what we do.
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.
If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you're gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been seen.
The folks who rock Uber value their time; they appreciate nice things with a taste of luxury and loathe inefficiency.
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.
Some city-council people are really awesome, but most are uninspired.
In order to keep the love going, you want to keep it fun.
I have been trying to understand the regulators.
We always find a way to learn and to get better.
Millennials aren't buying cars anymore. They don't want to drive. They don't want to own these cars. They don't want that inconvenience.
Every Uber employee should be proud of the culture we have and what we will build together over time.
I'm a geek. A techie geek.
I think a lot of folks feel like Uber was a company they missed out on. Sequoia passed on us three times.
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.
Imagine if we could create the most just workplace in the world. We would naturally be a magnet for all the great minds out there.
I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling.
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.
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.
In China, the government is involved in business in many different ways. They're involved in media and business. When you go to China, you have to rethink how you're doing everything. You have to become Chinese.
I like to say time is a luxury.
If Uber is lower-priced, then more people will want it. And if more people want it and can afford it, then you have more cars on the road. And if you have more cars on the road, then your pickup times are lower, your reliability is better. The lower-cost product ends up being more luxurious than the high-end one.
We want to get to the point that using Uber is cheaper than owning a car.
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.
We have to bring out the truth about how dark and dangerous and evil the taxi side is.
A regulator is supposed to create and enforce a standard.
I don't believe that you can make decisions on anything without having all of the details.
If you get stuck too much with the way you want the world to be, you will find that the world passes you by.
I believe in creating a workplace where a deep sense of justice underpins everything we do.
I know about traffic.
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 talk a lot about justice. I'm about it. I'm also about civil disobedience.
Uber is a global business. We don't think just in terms of the U.S.
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.
We're just technologists.
I was the straight-A student but sort of a little bit of debating my parents all the time, trying to find when they weren't logically correct.
China is just so different from the rest of the world.
Uber exists because of mobile telephones.
I really love numbers.
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.
You can't control who you fall in love with.
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.
