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they also put the one box of what they started to do was they started to pull the answer from your website and put it at the top under their ads
Google just pressed a button and just got rid of 80% of our traffic
if you took the Google founders and you said hey go run Pinterest they do a terrible job right that was a very sort of design centric company
Google's the most cutthroat company and they're so nice to you like they literally were giving us ten million dollars from one side in Google Adsense and on the other side Matt Cutts took away all the traffic and I was like we're partners how could you do this he said we're not partners we don't have partners
Google sucked at the time with all this web spam
to introduce a service like that where there is you know lobbies and medallions and all these things you did need a force of nature to grow you know that quickly and of course there was also an Achilles heel to that you know going you know too far and not necessarily listening to concerns employees had and other things like that
if uber is doing you know their best at least better than taxis to you know safety and scrutiny and all that stuff you know screening then it's just a more efficient model
I think it was a Paul Graham tweeted time which is the harder you fight against uber the more corrupt your government is yep which i think is pretty clearly summed up
with uber like had to be extremely analytically driven because it's it's really easy to just send people to the wrong place so they had just incredible GPS based analytics to dispatch drivers to the right place
you see it now with cloud kitchens nothing's gonna stop that kid
Travis is a force of nature you get the sense that you're never going to have to worry about some robach that Travis is not going to get through knock over go around lift over his head and body slam over his knee and crack in half
this is a super unique property you know really impressive like the way they ran the data and as we all know Travis is the force of nature
the growth rate you know you could look at month or month and it was you know twenty thirty percent growth per month with which was still a you know pretty high-end service as black cars right and his bonkers
it was growing virally people were just talking about it you get to the place oh my god it was amazing you'd given rise to each other there was this you know give one get one get a ride give a ride free take a ride free for your friends so it was growing virally and then the revenue per customer was it just immediately replaced all of your taxi spend
I went from this is too pricey to just that was consumer perfection you know for this particular use case which is I am at point-a I need to get to point B it's a use case that everybody has all the time that that experience basically could not have gotten better
I think you were very early in Ober as an angel we led the B round which felt like a high price at the time that's 300 million right yeah for being in you know four cities with a black car service right yeah people thought you were very dumb for doing that investment
there's no substitute for living the product and I was on the second floor of a flat in San Francisco and had pushed the button by the time I walked down the street there was a car there waiting you know get in no tip it was just this incredibly magical experience
others transportation sector obviously we're both you know investors in uber like you know that's obviously been affected dramatically because people are getting around a lot less