Uber CEO on Winning the Robotaxi Race, the End of Car Ownership, and Uber’s Next $1 Trillion Bet | Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber CEO) | 243
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PHD Ventures
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🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Robotaxi race is heating up. How are you going to win that race? |
| 0:04.0 | Well, when you joined taking the mantle of Uber, I think Uber was losing $4.5 billion a year. |
| 0:12.0 | Today it's earning over $10 billion a year. You really focused the organization. |
| 0:17.0 | Autonomous technology and autonomous vehicles, they are increasingly a reality on the streets. |
| 0:23.6 | As we speak, there isn't going to be this kind of binary outcome. |
| 0:26.6 | It's going to develop in a hybrid way, and you are going to have fleets in cities that consist |
| 0:33.6 | of some autonomous vehicles and then many human driven vehicles as well. |
| 0:38.3 | A hundred years ago we had this massive shift from horse and buggy to cars. |
| 0:42.3 | It took about 15 years to make the transition where 50% of the vehicles were cars. |
| 0:47.3 | How long do you expect that transition to take where 50% of the cars are self-driving cars? |
| 0:53.3 | Uh... Now that's the moonshot. 50% of the cars are self-driving cars. |
| 0:59.0 | Now that's the moonshot, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 1:03.0 | Quite the greeting, wow. Yeah, the energy is awesome, and you deserve it, pal. |
| 1:08.0 | First of all, you look amazing. |
| 1:09.0 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:10.0 | Stay in good health? Yes, trying. Excellent. all, you look amazing. Thank you very much. Stay in good health? |
| 1:27.8 | Yes, trying. Excellent. Well, so far, so good. I mean, the biggest challenge we have is stress levels and way too much travel. So, you know, I want to not take it for granted. Thank you for coming out. Happy to do it. I'm grateful for you. I'm grateful for your friendship. We've known each other since you were at Expedia. |
| 1:31.8 | And you know, you had an incredible success story there, right? |
| 1:36.8 | When the highest, if not the highest paid CEO, you actually walked away from a $200 million |
| 1:42.5 | stock package from Expedia to take the mantle of Uber. |
| 1:47.5 | And I remember just looked this other day. |
| 1:50.2 | When you joined taking the mantle of Uber, I think Uber was losing, what's the number? |
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