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Uber CEO Explains The Company's Taxi-Killing Pricing Formula
"When it’s 20% cheaper and more reliable to use Uber X, why would you use a taxi?" Uber CEO Travis Kalanick asked from the stage of Business Insider's IGNITION 2013 conference.Kalanick's on-demand car...
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Uber CEO Founded The Company Because He Wanted To Be A 'Baller In San Francisco'
Travis Kalanick, CEO of on-demand car service Uber, took the stage at Business Insider's IGNITION 2013 conference and described how his friends reacted the first time that a fancy black car pulled up...
View ArticleWhat It Takes To Become An Uber Driver
Please enable Javascript to watch this video Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick explains what it takes to become a driver at his cab service company.Produced by Kamelia Angelova, Alana Kakoyiannis and...
View ArticleWhy Uber Initially Had To Charge Five Times As Much As A Taxi
Please enable Javascript to watch this video Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick tells us how his friends reacted to his business idea, and why local regulators went on a crusade to stop the cab service at...
View ArticleHere's How Uber Comes Up With Its Taxi-Killing Prices
Please enable Javascript to watch this video Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick explains why his company can charge less than taxis, and how experiments with pricing affect drivers.Produced by Kamelia...
View ArticleAfter Successful Kitten Stunt, Uber May Expand Into Delivery Business
Please enable Javascript to watch this video Uber CEO Travis Kalanick explains how the company may expand cab services to delivery, after several successful marketing campaigns of delivering kittens,...
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How To Fix Uber's Surge Pricing Problem
Uber, the car hailing app, has from the get-go found itself in PR hot water due to its use of demand-response "surge" pricing where fares go up when rides get scarce. The initial round of these...
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Why Uber Sometimes Asks You To Pay A Lot More Than Usual
Over the weekend, on-demand ride service Uber upset a lot of customers in New York with its "surge pricing."That's because some customers ended up paying insanely high prices, seven to eight times the...
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Uber CEO: Surge Pricing Prevented You From Getting Stranded In The Snow
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick continues to stand behind the on-demand car service's surge pricing.Surge pricing happens when there is a lot of demand, but not enough cars on the road. So Uber raises its...
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Everyone Who Plans To Take An Uber On New Year's Eve Needs To Watch This Video
New Year's Eve is Uber's busiest night of the year. So, you can expect to see jacked-up prices (surge pricing) when you open the app for a ride on Tuesday night.Uber recently received backlash for...
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All Hail The Uber Man! How Sharp-Elbowed Salesman Travis Kalanick Became...
Shafqat Islam’s phone was ringing. He rubbed his eyes and looked at the number on the screen. It said unknown, but he took the call anyway."Hi, this is Travis," a voice said. "I know Lukas Biewald, and...
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It Turns Out Another Major Tech CEO Was At The Fateful Meeting Of Mark...
Remember that scene from The Social Network, when Mark Zuckerberg first meets Sean Parker? And Parker tells him to drop "the" and says $1 billion is cooler than $1 million?It turns out another big-time...
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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Was A Taxi Driver In An UberX Car Last Night
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick took the wheel last night, driving an UberX through San Francisco. — travis kalanick (@travisk) February 22, 2014 Kalanick cruised through the winding California roads,...
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Uber's Travis Kalanick Shares 3 Ways It Can Be Fun To Be CEO
Presumably, you would sleep a bit easier if your company was considered one of the 10 most valuable in the world. But take it from someone who's there now — peace of mind doesn't necessarily come with...
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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Is So Competitive, He Once Ranked No. 7 In The...
Ten thousand London taxi drivers are planning a strike next month to protest the rise of Uber, the app that lets private drivers charge for rides, reports Bloomberg. Protests and controversies are...
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Uber Is Going To Be The Next $100 Billion Company
Uber, the mobile app that helps you get taxis, is in talks to raise a new round of financing that could value the car-service startup at more than $10 billion, Bloomberg's Serena Saitto reports. To...
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Uber Is Planning For A World Without Drivers — Just A Self-Driving Fleet
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick sat for a keynote interview at Code Conference this afternoon in Southern California.During the interview, Code editor Kara Swisher asked Kalanick what he thinks of...
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Uber Raises $1.2 Billion At $17 Billion Valuation
Uber has raised $1.2 billion at a $17 billion pre-money valuation, the company announced today.All together, investors value Uber at $18.2 billion.The investment comes mostly from mutual funds....
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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Celebrated Pride Weekend By Officiating Free — And...
If you were looking to tie the knot in the Bay Area this past weekend, you didn't have to go too far. In fact, wherever you wanted to go, Uber would take you. And then they'd marry you and your...
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UberX Is Cutting Its Rates In The Bay Area
UberX just cut its rates by 25% in San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose — and it's about time.Uber is popular in San Francisco. But a look at Uber's blog reveals that San Francisco was one of the last...
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