Uber Quotes

“In the end, every startup is different. But in the beginning every startup is the same.”
― Richie Norton

“Happiness is a booty call: available and satisfying, but after a few hours, you’re ready to call an Uber and get back to your real commitments.”
― Ari Gold, The Gold Standard: Rules to Rule By

“You should learn how to play the flute. Then you could ride in the passenger seat of my car and play instrumental versions of classic 80s pop songs while I drive around on the clock for Uber.”
― Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

“We ran both the courier service and a detective agency from the same office, and had phone apps for both. Basically, we're Uber for parcels and mysteries.”
― Jay Stringer, How to Kill Friends and Implicate People

“My Uber driver in Sacramento was not like my San Franciso Uber from earlier that day at SFO. My SAC Uber driver’s first presdential election was JFK-Nixon (or Eisenhower in 1956) and he was already drawing a Social Security check. "Father Time" overshot my fixed location (twice) and then didn’t listen to the navigation instructions. This guy’s signature move (and totem animal) is a U-Turn, a mile past the original juncture.”
― Jon Obermeyer

“It's hard to teach children about our migration West when they're thinking, "Why didn't you just call an Uber?”
― Neil Leckman

“Uber Driving In Los Angeles Is Random And Very Unpredictable. Expect The Unexpected.”
― Mark Alan Nisall, Rideshare Revelations From An LA Uber Driver: The Highlights, The Lowlights and The Darkness

“Anybody who’s ridden a bike through the streets of New York City knows yellow cabs deserve every bit of badness that comes their way, especially undercutting competition.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“We're losing money for every unit but we'll make it up by volume.”
― Uber

“Fuck it, I think, as I open the Uber app.
A little white pill, my Xanax-shaped parachute, finds its way down my throat as I hit 'confirm ride'.
Then it's out the door into the night that's as restless as my mind.”
― Daniel Ruczko, Pieces of a Broken Mind

“If you’re looking for inspiration from Uber’s notorious magic, consider how it took an existing product, used existing technology, and delivered it to existing markets. Yet, its business model remains hard to replicate—and that’s the real magic trick. As the old Silicon Valley saying goes: If you can’t creatively turn $1 into $10, why do you expect to turn $1 million into $10 million?”
― Victoria Silchenko, Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain

“How on Earth was Uber, with its reported $10 billion loss from operations since 2016, and other gigantic creatures of the Internet Economy, able to flip the tedious “viability-profitability-expansion” route into an entirely new direction—“viability-expansion (maybe) profitability”?

Elementary—by ensuring consistent financing or, simply put, by having access to capital on the fly and turning their business models into platforms instead of building traditional pipes, so that acquiring new businesses is not a question—it is the answer.”
― Victoria Silchenko, Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain

“Here, I must say that some terminology in the language of finance is slightly misleading. Uber’s “loss” largely means heavy investments in other businesses and stock-based compensation stemming from the company's initial public offering.

Unsurprisingly, Travis Kalanick, Uber’s co-founder, sold nearly $1 billion in company shares the moment Uber’s IPO lockup period (read: the timeframe when you can’t sell your shares) was over. Duh.
When a company files for an IPO instead of bankruptcy, the IPO should be renamed a bailout—because modern business solutions require modern business jargon. #sarcasm”
― Victoria Silchenko, Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain

“Interviewing one of Uber’s earliest executives, who demonstrated the company’s route-finding algorithms with the unbridled enthusiasm of a small child at Christmas, I couldn’t help but think what this company had really innovated was not some brilliant new solution to the traveling salesman problem, but the establishment of a new, lower norm of employee treatment. Success, growth, profit came from taking what might at one time have been decent, stable jobs and rebranding them as side hustles. The brilliant business idea was persuading people to expect less.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This