Dara Khosrowshahi
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It's an exciting technology, but there are many players getting to the finish line.
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.
Well, there's nothing secure about the technology space.
There's always innovation.
And so we just have to move fast.
And I say, actually, that the more important factor in Uber is our global coverage.
We operate in 70 countries.
The demand that we're bringing every day, we've got millions of consumers opening our app all over the world.
And we can point that demand not just to our current driver partners and delivery partners, but as autonomous comes in to autonomous partners.
You know, these are very expensive cars.
It's a very expensive technology.
And you want to amortize the upfront spend against as many transactions as possible.
And Uber certainly is the leader around the world in terms of the demand that we can point to our autonomous partners.
Well, we have a very creative team.
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.
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...
building out a fleet presence and or vehicles across the autonomous ecosystem so that we can continue to be a leader in the space.
I think we'll be opportunistic, certainly.
We love Grab, and it's a strategic partner of ours.
DD, of course, hasn't gone public yet.