“My initial yoga teacher training made sense of so many things for me. It validated that your body is connected to your thoughts, energy, emotions, and how you view yourself. I learned that this influences your behaviors, reality, connection to your soul's purpose, or lack thereof.”
Source: So Empowered: Discover the Five Layers of the Body To Take Control of Your Life
“Happiness is a booty call: available and satisfying, but after a few hours, you’re ready to call an Uber and get back to your real commitments.”
Source: The Gold Standard: Rules to Rule By
“We ran both the courier service and a detective agency from the same office, and had phone apps for both. Basically, we're Uber for parcels and mysteries.”
Source: How to Kill Friends and Implicate People
“My Uber driver in Sacramento was not like my San Franciso Uber from earlier that day at SFO. My SAC Uber driver’s first presdential election was JFK-Nixon (or Eisenhower in 1956) and he was already drawing a Social Security check. "Father Time" overshot my fixed location (twice) and then didn’t listen to the navigation instructions. This guy’s signature move (and totem animal) is a U-Turn, a mile past the original juncture.”
“It's hard to teach children about our migration West when they're thinking, "Why didn't you just call an Uber?”
“Uber Driving In Los Angeles Is Random And Very Unpredictable. Expect The Unexpected.”
Source: Rideshare Revelations From An LA Uber Driver: The Highlights, The Lowlights and The Darkness
“Fear, a lie we whisper to ourselves—and yet, you believe it enough to stand still.”
“Anybody who’s ridden a bike through the streets of New York City knows yellow cabs deserve every bit of badness that comes their way, especially undercutting competition.”
Source: In Limbo
“If you’re looking for inspiration from Uber’s notorious magic, consider how it took an existing product, used existing technology, and delivered it to existing markets. Yet, its business model remains hard to replicate—and that’s the real magic trick. As the old Silicon Valley saying goes: If you can’t creatively turn $1 into $10, why do you expect to turn $1 million into $10 million?”
Source: Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain
“How on Earth was Uber, with its reported $10 billion loss from operations since 2016, and other gigantic creatures of the Internet Economy, able to flip the tedious “viability-profitability-expansion” route into an entirely new direction—“viability-expansion (maybe) profitability”?
Elementary—by ensuring consistent financing or, simply put, by having access to capital on the fly and turning their business models into platforms instead of building traditional pipes, so that acquiring new businesses is not a question—it is the answer.”
Source: Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain