Documents suggest there were texts saying in which travis calonic said, i think it's worth it about this. Violence guaranteed success, and these guys must be resisted. The current head of uberits appeared to throw trappis under the buss a little bit by saying he regret some of the tactics used to get regulatory reform for ride sharing early on. It was basically a battle for, should people be allowed to do rye charing? That’s what this all comes down to, is, you know, the protectionist cab lobbies verses new way that's cheaper and better.
Today we talk about the Elon Musk & Twitter deal-or-no-deal (2:14). Then we get into two big pieces of Uber news today: first, over a hundred thousand leaked documents about Uber’s aggressive expansion efforts back in the early days (20:47), and second, present-day Uber under Dara is testing out geo-located ads (33:18). Finally, we’ve also got some insider dirt from Apple’s autonomous car efforts (49:20).
(0:00) Jason and Molly intro today’s show
(2:14) Elon Musk calls off the Twitter deal
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(13:58) Is Twitter a niche product?
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(20:47) The Guardian obtained 124,000 leaked internal documents from Uber’s global expansion phase under Travis
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(33:18) Uber is testing its ad business
(49:20) Apple Car project has faced repeated setbacks
(58:39) Outro + Plugs