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Money Talks from The Economist

Money talks: Uber's mega ambitions

Money Talks from The Economist

The Economist

News, Business, Economy, Finance & Economics, Business News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Our Asia economics editor gives us his report on the G20 summit and why leaders pushed Theresa May for a 'soft' Brexit. Alexandra Suich, our US technology editor, discusses Uber's plans to transform the world of personal transport. And our Schumpeter columnist tells us why companies should cherish introverts.

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0:00.0

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0:06.0

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0:08.0

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0:19.0

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0:27.0

Hello, I'm Richard Cockett, the British Business Editor, and you're listening to Money Talks.

0:38.9

And on this show?

0:39.9

So there will be no second referendum, no attention, the clock back.

0:43.0

Their first priority would be to renegotiate in terms of trade with the economic unit that they sell half of their goods to.

0:50.5

We give our post-G20 analysis. Of course the Brexit that Japan and America and others want to see is a very, very soft one.

0:57.0

Uber has mega ambitions.

1:00.0

It will be their greatest technological feat if they pull it off, but it is a very long road ahead.

1:05.6

We're talking probably 10 years away.

1:07.8

And how companies can get the most out of introverts.

1:11.4

Introverts can actually train themselves to do the sort of things that extroverts do,

1:15.6

which is to get out there to motivate people.

1:19.8

First though, the G20 summit came to a close yesterday in Hangzhou, China.

1:25.0

Though it began controversially on the runway after plane stairs and red carpet fanfare

1:31.0

failed to materialize for President Obama at the airport, leaders were able to put aside

1:36.1

their differences to agree on measures for reviving the global economy.

1:40.7

Simon Rabinovich, our Asia Economics editor, who just returned from Hangzhou, is on the line

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