126 Quotes by Travis Kalanick

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.

In order to keep the love going, you want to keep it fun.

Being Uber means being efficient.

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.

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

Some city-council people are really awesome, but most are uninspired.

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

As much as I'd love to give everybody a really cheap option, it's just simply not possible in certain sorts of extreme events... I guarantee that our strategy on surge pricing is the optimal way to get as many people home as possible.

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.