Travis Kalanick
Travis Kalanick
Travis Cordell Kalanickis an American entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of the peer-to-peer file sharing company Red Swoosh and the transportation network company Uber...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
amount business company customers huge money pay red revenge sued technology turn
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.
buddies bunch company finished senior since
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.
ask industry legal permission taxi upfront
There's been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront for something that's already legal, you'll never get it.
add amount car hours spent time
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.
jobs uber creating
There are 100's of thousands of Uber partners, and we are creating 50,000 jobs per month.
nice fundraising done
Keep the competitive leads warm, get your deal oversubscribed, because until your deal is done, it's just a nice fantasy in your head
guy littles way
If you bring that scrappy fierceness with you it works until you get big, when really pushing all the way really feels uncomfortable...When you're the little guy that's lauded, that's heroic.
numbers people together
There has to be a large number of people and routes that are lined up together. One part is liquidity and the other part is product - there's a lot that can go wrong.
fighting innovation red
The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It's intense to fight the red tape.
wife asking next
You're asking somebody who has a wife and is really happily married, 'So, what's your next wife going to be like?' And I'm like, 'What?'
blue want red
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.
thinking uber logistics
We like to think of Uber as the cross between lifestyle and logistics, where lifestyle is what you want and logistics is how you get it there,
uber car magic
When theres no other dude in the car, the cost of taking an Uber anywhere becomes cheaper than owning a vehicle. So the magic there is, you basically bring the cost below the cost of ownership for everybody, and then car ownership goes away.
uber goal car
Our whole goal is to drive the cost of taking an Uber BELOW the cost of owning a car.