Travis Kalanick

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The a16z Show · Ben Horowitz and Travis Kalanick on Building Again · 14 Aug 2026 podcast

in time?

I think this will surprise a lot of people, but Lyft's culture was very different than ours.

Maybe it started with the pink mustache.

But I think it's interesting, right, when it comes to entrepreneurs that are in that moment where you could acquire something.

By the way, I got a lot of shit for this for a long time.

So yeah, the The cultured in mix.

Yeah, the yeah, yeah, the cultured in mix.

And when you meet with somebody and you're gonna acquire them and there's so much goodness that could come from it, by the way, we're in some crazy war, probably spending a billion dollars a year on it or some insane amount of money, you want it to work.

So you wouldn't do

different?

I wouldn't do anything different.

And it's easy to say now, but I got a lot of shit for that for a long time.

But it was basically I would sit across the table from the guys and I just didn't

It was just clear that we were very culturally different and you couldn't

It get harder and harder to make that happen.

Yeah, we've rebranded it the current company at Adams.

We call it the best idea wins.

But the toe stepping is important because there's so many people that are not willing to fight for the best idea because they're gonna upset somebody else.

And if you don't fight for the best idea, then what idea are you fighting for?

You're fighting for the mediocre idea, the politically expedient idea, an idea that's gonna make you less good than if you went for the best idea.

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