Dara Khosrowshahi
Dara Khosrowshahi is the Chief Executive Officer of Uber Technologies, a position he has held since August 2017. Before joining Uber, he served as CEO of Expedia Group for over a decade, where he grew the company into one of the world's largest online travel platforms. He is best known for stabilizing Uber after a period of significant internal turmoil, steering the company through its 2019 IPO, and leading its expansion into autonomous vehicle partnerships, freight, and food delivery.
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“Dara left right when I joined... when Expedia spun out pretty much right as I joined.”
Source→“He will not ask you to do anything he wouldn't do himself. He's the first one over the fence.”
Source→“Uber One membership program, 50 million members now growing 50% year on year... we're kind of like Netflix. For the same price, you get more content than anyone else.”
Source→“We're going to have some players, for example, a Wave who's focused on building one end-to-end model that they license to OEMs. And we will be responsible essentially for all the demand.”
Source→“Joby is building drones for people. That's happening. And I think drones for food and other grocery are going to start hitting real scale over the next two to five years.”
Source→“Companies like Wabi and Wave, WeRides of the World, Pony AIs of the World.”
Source→“The Chinese players in terms of their capabilities and bill of materials is incredibly, incredibly impressive. And we need that kind of a low cost player in the Western hemisphere. It's being worked on, but we're not there yet. The Chinese capabilities in terms of manufacturing, both in terms of quality and cost at this point is unrivaled.”
Source→“AVs that are on our network are 30% or more busy than, let's say, 1P AVs who aren't using our network. That 30% in terms of trips per vehicle per day, in terms of revenue per vehicle per day, can make a huge difference in terms of your ROI of investing in these expensive cars.”
Source→“Herbert always told me companies can do well during periods or companies can do poorly during periods. But great people always stay great. And I'm going to make a bet on people.”
Source→“Daniel looks at me. He's like, Dara, since when is life about happiness? It's about impact. Uber is a company that has impact on the world.”
Source→“He is so logical and structured in his thinking... but then once in a while, he's a gambler... I find that there's a superpower in being structured in your thinking, but then not too structured in that you're always going with the flow.”
Source→“Andrew McDonald, who is our president and COO, predated me and has come through many, many years.”
Source→“Barry always insisted on going to the source, getting unfiltered data. It was sometimes unpleasant. It took more time. But getting to the ground truth would help his decision making and would allow him to give that edge to kind of go against the grain.”
Source→“We happened to make a deal with Expedia, my old company. And we're essentially giving the vast majority of the economics of that deal back to Uber One members.”
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