The guardian obtained over a hundred and 24 thousand leaked internal documents from ober's global expansion phase under travis calnic. The leaks covered this period between 20 13 and 20 17, when it was like, go hard, grow everywhere. Mark mgan, who was uber's former head of european expansion, and revealed that he leaked the documents. And they're going to go full kind of facebook whistle blower on it.
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