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travis kalanick @travisk

Uber founder. Atoms CEO

Joined October 2007
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First day at our new Austin office. Video of my 5 minute jet ski commute to work.. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜‚
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First day at our new Lake Austin office. 5 minute jet ski ride to work.. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜‚
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@jason
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Backgammon is the new poker ... and @travisk and I are working on special project y'all are gonna love!
Jay Levy - Zelkova Ventures
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Jun 17
Eleven things a backgammon taught me about writing checks and building a portfolio. Venture Capital Is Backgammon in Slow Motion. medium.com/p/c4324cabb830?poโ€ฆ
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Big Mining Energy ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ๐Ÿ˜…
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In 2001 I intercepted a partner at a VC who was trying to escape his office before our meeting was supposed to start. I ended up pitching him in his parked Lexus from the passenger seat. At one point he grabbed my laptop placed on his large belly which was pressed against the steering wheel and rapidly flipped through the slides himself. 2001 fundraising hit different
GREG ISENBERG
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Jun 2
I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A. 12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30 minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going. I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital. You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious. It's a dance. And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious. If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird. No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there. It is weird.
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open.spotify.com/track/7qvlZโ€ฆ

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Uber's 16th birthday coming up ... thinking about a "summit" for the OG's... any ideas? who'd be down to show up?! startDate < 9/2015 X^x^x ... iykyk ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿš˜๐Ÿฅณ #UberGetsItsDriversLicense Location poll...
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Atoms infra
Brian Attwell
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Apr 14
After 8 years in stealth, weโ€™re opening things up. Atomโ€™s first open source project, Splitter, is live. More coming soon ๐Ÿ—๏ธ github.com/atoms-co/splitter
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The original UberEats predicted what people wanted to eat and the food was put in cars right before the food was ordered. This meant an Uber eater would literally get his food in 5 minutes. We were a bit ahead of our time.. low scale meant too much waste and not enough choice With current size of online food delivery market, feels like this should now be possible, faster, more sustainable, actually less expensive โ€ฆ 5 minute delivery of anything you want to eat at a much lower price than todayโ€™s ubereats and DoorDash โ€ฆ guessing one of the delivery services goes after this in the next few years
Historic Vids
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23 Oct 2024
When Uber CEO Travis Kalanick tried explaining Uber Eats
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travis kalanick
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Apr 10
Civilization Matters. Join the movement.
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Apr 10
Inclusive and safe ... :)
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Have to draw the line somewhere...
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Hard core builders welcome.
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Interesting problems to solve.
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Celebrating being back. Atoms Launch. SF 4.22 Who's coming?! atoms.co/rsvp
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@alwaysallisyn has a... let's say unique sense of humor (3/3)
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this is probably the best of the 3, don't think this would offend anyone :) (2/3)
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