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Dara Khosrowshahi

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
599 total appearances

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Bloomberg Talks
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Talks Asia Growth, Robo Taxis

It's an exciting technology, but there are many players getting to the finish line.

Bloomberg Talks
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Talks Asia Growth, Robo Taxis

We just have to make sure that the players that we work with are safe and that, again, we're working with the regulators in a constructive manner.

Bloomberg Talks
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Talks Asia Growth, Robo Taxis

Well, there's nothing secure about the technology space.

Bloomberg Talks
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Talks Asia Growth, Robo Taxis

There's always innovation.

Bloomberg Talks
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Talks Asia Growth, Robo Taxis

And so we just have to move fast.

Bloomberg Talks
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Talks Asia Growth, Robo Taxis

And I say, actually, that the more important factor in Uber is our global coverage.

Bloomberg Talks
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Talks Asia Growth, Robo Taxis

We operate in 70 countries.

Bloomberg Talks
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Talks Asia Growth, Robo Taxis

The demand that we're bringing every day, we've got millions of consumers opening our app all over the world.

Bloomberg Talks
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Talks Asia Growth, Robo Taxis

And we can point that demand not just to our current driver partners and delivery partners, but as autonomous comes in to autonomous partners.

Bloomberg Talks
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Talks Asia Growth, Robo Taxis

You know, these are very expensive cars.

Bloomberg Talks
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Talks Asia Growth, Robo Taxis

It's a very expensive technology.

Bloomberg Talks
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Talks Asia Growth, Robo Taxis

And you want to amortize the upfront spend against as many transactions as possible.

Bloomberg Talks
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Talks Asia Growth, Robo Taxis

And Uber certainly is the leader around the world in terms of the demand that we can point to our autonomous partners.

Bloomberg Talks
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Talks Asia Growth, Robo Taxis

Well, we have a very creative team.

Bloomberg Talks
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Talks Asia Growth, Robo Taxis

I think the good news for us is we're now free cash flowing close to $10 billion, and we expect that to increase substantially over the next couple of years.

Bloomberg Talks
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Talks Asia Growth, Robo Taxis

So through a combination of the substantial free cash flow that we have and also monetizing some of the equity stakes that we have in other companies, now it's over $10 billion, we think we have plenty of capital to be able to continue to invest in our autonomous technology partners or...

Bloomberg Talks
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Talks Asia Growth, Robo Taxis

building out a fleet presence and or vehicles across the autonomous ecosystem so that we can continue to be a leader in the space.

Bloomberg Talks
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Talks Asia Growth, Robo Taxis

I think we'll be opportunistic, certainly.

Bloomberg Talks
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Talks Asia Growth, Robo Taxis

We love Grab, and it's a strategic partner of ours.

Bloomberg Talks
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Talks Asia Growth, Robo Taxis

DD, of course, hasn't gone public yet.