126 Quotes by Travis Kalanick

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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 seen.

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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 that are stranded.

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    The folks who rock Uber value their time; they appreciate nice things with a taste of luxury and loathe inefficiency.

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    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.

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    My politics are: I'm a trustbuster. Very focused. And yeah, I'm pro-efficiency. I want the most economic activity at the lowest price possible. It's good for everybody; it's not red or blue.

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    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.

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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 China, you have to rethink how you're doing everything. You have to become Chinese.

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