Travis Kalanick of Uber - TWiST #180


Join our new mailing list and be the first to learn about upcoming guests: thisweekin.com 0:00-2:00 Welcome to TWiST with Travis Kalanick of Uber. 2:00-3:30 Jason talks about gambling on dinner in Vegas with Mike D from the Beastie Boys. 3:30-5:00 Thank you to GoToMeeting for sponsoring the show. Check out their beautiful new HD Faces product when you sign up at GoToMeeting.com. 5:00-7:00 Travis talks about his first company, doing SAT Prep, when he was 18. 7:00-8:30 Travis' SAT score revealed! 8:30-10:30 Travis's second company, Scour, was the first peer-to-peer software. 11:45-15:30 Travis talks about Michael Ovitz and Ron Burkle, who invested in his first company. 15:30-18:30 Travis discusses how Scour evolved into a huge platform. 18:30-23:30 Scour starts to meet with music execs and senators about copyrighted content and peer-to-peer sharing. 23:30-25:30 How do you deal with all of this insanity as a 22 year old founder? 25:30-26:15 Ovitz invested in Scour, a company that is cannibalizing his own industry, then denies that he knew what was going on. 26:15-28:00 Thank you to Hiscox for sponsoring the show. Go to HiscoxUSA.com/SmallBiz to get a free, fast quote online for your small business or startup! 28:00-35:00 Travis tells a harrowing tale of getting threatened by a shady industry type before going on stage at one of Jason's digital coast events. 35:00-36:00 The Scour lawsuit is settled and Travis sells the company for $10 million in bankruptcy court. 36:00-38:00 <b>...</b>


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Travis Kalanick Startup Lessons from the Jam Pad - Tech Cocktail Startup Mixology


Travis Kalanick is a successful entrepreneur in the areas of consumer Internet, p2p, and enterprise content delivery. His most recent company, Red Swoosh, was sold to Akamai Technologies in 2007. Today, Kalanick invests in and advises startups founded by awesome entrepreneurs, such as: CrowdFlower, DeviantArt, Expensify, Formspring, Kareo, and Honestly (formerly Unvarnished), Uber (formerly Ubercab). He shares his insights, perspectives and lessons from startup life at the Tech Cocktail Startup Mixology Conference in Chicago on October 28, 2010. Startup Mixology info: startupmixology.techcocktail.com Tech Cocktail info: techcocktail.com


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LeWeb 2011 Travis Kalanick, Co-Founder & CEO, Uber


LeWeb 2011 Travis Kalanick, Co-Founder & CEO, Uber launched the car service in Paris with 60 cars currently on the ground and $32 million in new funding.


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LeWeb 2010 - Money Roundtable, Moderated by Travis Kalanick, Entrepreneur & Angel Investor.


Panelists: Philippe Botteri, Vice-President, Bessemer Venture Partners. Jeff Clavier, Founder & Managing Partner, SoftTech VC. Bernerd Liautaud, Partner, Balderton Capital. Barry E. Silbert, CEO & Founder, SecondMarket, INC.


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Monthly Backchannel Producer Meeting--Aug. 26, 2011


During the monthly Backchannel Producer meeting, we recapped the past two months of TWiST, talked about what's to come and heard from our awesome supporters. Thanks to everyone who was able to join us! 0:00-1:15 If you'd like to join and be a part of this great group, visit twistlist.co to impact the course of the program. 1:15-3:00 Recapping the last 60 days of TWiST: 1 Connected Devices and Web TV Special; 1 Shark Tank Takeover; 1 uber-revealing interview with Travis Kalanick; 1 pilot for This Week in Docs with Lon Harris and Tyler Crowley; 2 International Meetups: Santiago, Chile and Paris, France; 5 bonus episodes; 7 News Roundtable Panels; 11 interviews with startup founders and CEOs 3:00-5:00 Plans for the next month include: Fitness and Health Devices Special with Jason Jacobs of RunKeeper, Ben Rubin of Zeo; Tuesday, Sept. 20: Interview with Kathy Savitt of the controversial company Lockerz; Big Data Special with yet-to-be-announced guests. Proposed guests include Nick Halstead of Datasift and Dr. Alex Karp of Palantir Tech. 5:00-5:30 Question: Is there still a plan to have a patents episode? 5:30-6:00 Question: Are Jason and Tyler coming to London and Paris? 6:00-6:30 Question: Is there a Twitter list for all Backchannel members? (Yes, email EP Geoff Clapp to get your name on the list.) 6:30-7:00 Questions: Can we build a pop-out viewer on thisweekin.com? Can we invite Adam Carolla on TWiST? 7:00-9:00 Producer Mike Sunyich gives his feedback. 9:00-20:00 EP <b>...</b>


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PepsiCo Post-Game - Groupon and Social Commerce


Frank Gruber (TechCocktail) and Travis Kalanick (Uber Cab) following Groupon CEO Andrew Mason's presentation for a provocative discussion on the increasingly social marketplace. Where is it headed, and what does it mean for retailers, agencies and consumers? What happens when promotion becomes content, when sites pursue self-proclaimed "baffling initiatives," and when entire ancillary markets of coupon trading rise in their wake?


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FailCon Mashup #failcon


FailCon mashup includes Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures; Brian Wong, Kiip; Gagan Biyani, Udemy; Roger Dickey, Product X; Joe Gebbia, Airbnb; Christina Hosberry, Facebook; Hiten Shah, KISSmetrics; Ethan Bloch, Flowtown; Peter Gardner, Wavepoint Ventures; David Weekly, PBworks; Travis Kalanick, Uber & Stephanie Wilkes, Catch


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Startup Advice For Entrepreneurs


Advice for startups from the speakers at Tech Cocktail's Startup Mixology conference in Chicago, October 2010. Featuring Tony Conrad, Eric Lunt, Travis Kalanick, Mark Drapeau, John Dallas, Jr, David Gardner, Ross Kimbarovsky.


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