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The Uber IPO

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Ride Sharing Can Be Bigger Than Ride Sharing

Uber is already doing $9 million a month in bookings and almost $2 million a week in net revenue for a company that is essentially one year old. The traction is just, just incredible. You know, launching cities all over the world. And this is actually the moment where Travis starts thinking, you know what, we're going all in pedal to the floor on ride sharing around the world. This can be bigger than ride sharing. That was the beginning of what would become Uber Eats. We were like barely live in the US. He said, no, we have to do this. We have to do it now. I believe the directive was we're launching in three weeks

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