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" You have to be willing to stand up for what you believe in, and the rule of law is one of those things. "
Travis Kalanick
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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 amount of money and turn them into customers with the same technology. I wanted to get them to pay me. It was a revenge business. "
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" I think Uber is just very different; there's no model to copy. It may be the reason why we've been a lightning rod in so many ways, because we don't do anything conventional... And then I think also, as an entrepreneur, I'm a bit of a lone wolf. "
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" I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress. "
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" When people start to perceive you as the big guy, you're not allowed to be scrappy, fierce. "
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" I've never been derogatory towards taxi drivers. "
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" Ultimately, progress and innovation win. "
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" If you're operating from strong principles, you can compromise when the person on the other side is operating from principles you respect. "
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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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" Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does pay for therapy. "
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" I am from Los Angeles, and my parents are from Los Angeles. "
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" I believe in creating a workplace where a deep sense of justice underpins everything we do. "
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" The ability for somebody to put their arm out and get a taxi is fundamentally different then having a 10-minute pickup time. It just is. "
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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 want transportation as reliable as running water. "
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" 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. "
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" It was a privilege to meet Rev. Jackson, and I learned a tremendous amount from his insight. "
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" You can't control who you fall in love with. "
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" 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. "
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" As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal. "
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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 got really good at negotiating from a place of weakness. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I wake up in the morning with a list of problems, and I go solve them. "
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" I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Acknowledging mistakes and learning from them are the first steps. "
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