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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 by 30 cars. Those 30 cars are only served 4% of the day; 96% of the day, they're stored somewhere. Around 20% to 30% of our land is taken up just storing these hunks of metal that we drive around in for 4% of the day. "

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" 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. "

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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 our story, because as we grow and have a bigger impact on cities, if we don't tell our story, somebody else will. "

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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 off, or get more demand in the system or get some demand out. "

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" There are a lot of rules in cities that were designed to protect a particular incumbent, but not to move a city's constituents, a city's citizens, and the city itself, forward. And that's a problem. "

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" We want to get to the point that using Uber is cheaper than owning a car. "

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" I really love numbers. "

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" Every day, I get a little smarter. "

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

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" I talk a lot about justice. I'm about it. I'm also about civil disobedience. "

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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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" I've been an entrepreneur since I was 18. I started a company with a bunch of buddies that got funded in my senior year, and that's when I finished school. It was called Scour, a peer-to-peer service, file-sharing. "

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" I am from Los Angeles, and my parents are from Los Angeles. "

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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 crazy, interesting problems that I get to solve every day or that need to be solved, and I have a crazy list of things I'd like to invent. And I kind of just prioritize them and work my way down, and try to simplify what I do when managing a big company. "

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" I don't believe that you can make decisions on anything without having all of the details. "

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" In many ways, we look at Uber as the safety net for a city. "

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" 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. "

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" Ultimately, progress and innovation win. "

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" Uber riders are the most affluent, influential people in their cities. "

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" I call it dark energy. If you are unreliable, customers just disappear. "

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