Uber’s Road Ahead; Bumble’s Date with the Nasdaq; Dr. Atul Gawande

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4 • 494 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is betting on widespread vaccination to help the ride sharing business recover in 2021. He discusses UberEats, the competition, and accepting Bitcoin for rides. Surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and staff writer for The New Yorker Dr. Atul Gawande discusses vaccination strategies across the U.S., and considers best practices for reaching underserved populations. Plus, the team is craving PepsiCo’s snacks, Zillow’s hot for real estate junkies, and Bumble is hitched to the Nasdaq, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

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0:00.0	This is Squawk Pod. I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer. Today on our
0:05.7	podcast Finding Love on the NASDAQ Bumble IPOs. You can't go out to meet
0:11.1	anyone. Then when you meet someone, what do you do?
0:13.8	I'd send ab pictures, you know, that I got out of it.
0:16.5	Yeah, that's me.
0:17.7	Where Rubber meets the road for Uber, driving profitability with CEO
0:21.9	Dara Kasser Shahi.
0:23.3	In 2021, we expect the whole business to be profitable
0:27.7	and we expect the delivery business as a whole to be profitable.
0:31.8	The timing of that is going to depend on when society opens up again.
0:36.9	When will society open up again as vaccinations ramp up, surgeon and writer Dr. Atul Gowanday on strategy.
0:44.3	We're basically seeing across the country mass vaccination sites have helped us get to the point
0:49.7	where at four times the rate of vaccination per day, over 1.5 million shots per day.
0:56.0	Those stories plus Zillow surfing and Pepsi snacks, Fritos, tostitos.
1:02.0	So you have a toe fetish?
1:04.0	No, yeah, yes. T-O-S.
1:07.0	It's Thursday, February 11, 2021.
1:10.0	Squawkpot begins right now.
1:13.0	Good morning everybody.
1:15.0	Welcome to Squawk Box here on C.
1:17.0	I'm Becky Quick, along with Jill Kernan and Andrew Ross Sorkin.
1:20.0	Yesterday, Dow said another record.
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