Travis Kalanick
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Sep 11, 2026
Zach StaplesGUEST
Right.
Zach StaplesGUEST
And so if you actually look at, and I think it was the MIT Sloan school that this data, but if you actually look at the data for entrepreneurial success for founders and small business owners that start the business over 45, the data is almost entirely inverted.
Zach StaplesGUEST
They're also got 50% success rate.
Mark Labriola IIHOST
Hmm.
Harry StebbingsHOST
I think it's a smart thing.
Jason LemkinPANELIST
The only one thing I would say is, um, it i- it is slightly heartwarming that Uber put 100 million into Kalanick's company, Travis Kalanick, after, after pushing him out, right? There's a heartwarming element to that.
Jason LemkinPANELIST
But it's, that's not a lot of money here in this case.
Jason LemkinPANELIST
It's not a lot of money for Uber, right, who has a huge balance sheet and basically two products, right? And it's not a lot versus what Travis has raised, right? So it is nice, but I, I think just thinking about it from a, fr- at a high level, it's just a ch- it's just a start of a relationship, right? 100 million is just, it's, it's, it's just like a seed check from Andreessen into the deal.
AJ TillsGUEST
that? Yeah.
AJ TillsGUEST
So the idea actually came to Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp.
AJ TillsGUEST
Travis was the CEO for many, many years when they were in Paris.
AJ TillsGUEST
They'd been at an event and they were around the Eiffel Tower and there were all of these black cars or limousines on the side of the road that were not being used.
Nick TranGUEST
Like what Gary did back in South by was like, you know, lore for marketers today.
Nick TranGUEST
Like I was in the room with Travis Kalanick and we were concepting Uber and like the idea of like, what's like, those are crazy stories that he was at the center of.
Nick TranGUEST
I haven't heard that since then.
Nick TranGUEST
Right.
Doug TallmadgeGUEST
Um, and so, you know, that was good and bad.
Doug TallmadgeGUEST
I think, you know, part of it was, um, something that I think Travis Kalanick said a couple weeks ago that, that I totally agree with, which is, you know, starting with a floor and moving up actually might often be a better strategy than starting high and moving down because it just sends the wrong signaling risk, you know.
Doug TallmadgeGUEST
And so that's something in hindsight that I think we learned, which is like, you know, we went out to go raise a seed, uh, with zero product, zero customers, and just a deck, right? And I think in twenty twenty-one that might've worked, but early twenty twenty-three was actually one of the worst seed markets in probably, you know, a long, long time.
Doug TallmadgeGUEST
I think it was down eighty percent from what it had been in twenty twenty-one.
AmitHOST
We have a packed lineup today covering everything from autonomous vehicles to some wild mathematical breakthroughs from the researchers at OpenAI.
YuvalHOST
We are starting with a very familiar name making a rather unexpected comeback into the autonomous vehicle space, Travis Kalanick.
AmitHOST
Yes, the ousty sounder of Uber is back in the self-driving game.
AmitHOST
He's building an autonomous vehicle operation inside his new physical AI company called Atoms.
speaker_1HOST
If a startup waits for gatekeepers, they will be outmaneuvered.
speaker_1HOST
Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp knew this with Uber.
Paul R. GloriaHOST
If they had asked municipal transit authorities for permission to launch an unregulated taxi network, they would have been laughed out of the building.
speaker_1HOST
So they didn't ask.
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speaker_1HOST
The sources use Uber as the ultimate case study here.
Paul R. GloriaHOST
Right.
Paul R. GloriaHOST
Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp didn't quietly approach the San Francisco Transit Authority with a binder full of proposals asking if they could kindly start a digital taxi company with zero actual taxis.
speaker_1HOST
They knew the bureaucracy would absolutely crush them.
Rebecca LynnGUEST
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Rebecca LynnGUEST
I sat with Kalanick for three hours one day as he was discussing taking over the CEO spot at Uber.
Rebecca LynnGUEST
And I was like-
Jason CalacanisHOST
Yeah.
Anthony LuceroCORRESPONDENT
Atmos is reportedly getting into the robotaxi business.
speaker_15CORRESPONDENT
The company is run by former Uber boss Travis Kalanick.
speaker_15CORRESPONDENT
The Financial Times reports it's now on a hiring spree as it moves into autonomous vehicles.
speaker_15CORRESPONDENT
For now, they're partnering with Uber, and Uber is investing in Atmos.
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Anthony LuceroCORRESPONDENT
The measures also target intermediaries in Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, and Kazakhstan.
Anthony LuceroCORRESPONDENT
Atmos is reportedly getting into the robotaxi business.
speaker_15CORRESPONDENT
The company is run by former Uber boss, Travis Kalanick.
speaker_15CORRESPONDENT
The Financial Times reports it's now on a hiring spree as it moves into autonomous vehicles.
Samir KajiHOST
And when you think about wins above replacement, there are some exceptional examples.
Samir KajiHOST
Like you look at if Jeff Bezos starts a company which, you know, Prometheus, or Elon Musk, or Travis Kalanick, all these guys are massive high wins above replacement to a level.
Samir KajiHOST
How do you work with founders based on their level of WAR, for example, wins above replacement? Do you treat the people that are super high WAR differently than the people that maybe have a great idea but are lower on the WAR side?
Carter ReumGUEST
Yeah.
Carter ReumGUEST
Versus a unicorn founder, you might be kind of thinking about how you get into hyper-scale mode or things like that.
Carter ReumGUEST
So I think for us, like, as an investor who's very hands-on and takes an operational approach with our founders, what is dictated is how we make an impact, because again, we just wanna just kinda supercharge what great founders are already doing.
Samir KajiHOST
It's such an interesting framework because I think about y- and there was a interview recently that Travis Kalanick did, and I don't know if you actually saw the interview, but he was kinda going through his time at Uber, and obviously he went scorchers on, on some VCs.
Samir KajiHOST
In fact, there was this whole Twitter thread around most VCs add negative value, and it's often because they treat founders the same re- re- regardless of sort of their WAR.
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