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
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.
hustle disease antidote
Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote.
hustle disease antidote
Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote Whatever it is that you’re afraid of, go after it.
creativity people growth
In a lot of ways, it's not the money that allows you to do new things. It's the growth and the ability to find things that people want and to use your creativity to target those.
dark evil sides
We have to bring out the truth about how dark and dangerous and evil the taxi side is.
nice phones cells
Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That’s why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It’s for the experience.
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.
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 goal car
Our whole goal is to drive the cost of taking an Uber BELOW the cost of owning a car.
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.
entrepreneur trying limits
As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal.
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
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.