HD in HD · 2025-11-24 · 1h 29m
When Uber needed a reset, only a disciplined leader could see the path forward. Raised in one of Iran’s leading industrial families, Dara Khosrowshahi watched everything disappear during the revolution as his family rebuilt their lives in the U.S. In this episode, he shares how, with education as the only constant, he rose to become the youngest VP at Allen & Co., played a defining role across IAC and Expedia, and ultimately led Uber from deep losses to a profitable business. We also get into: the immigrant childhood that trained him to adapt faster why betting on people, not models, became the most important lesson of his career the early failures at Expedia that hardened his decision making and leadership style how he rebuilt culture at Uber while operating under intense public scrutiny the long term vision of turning Uber from a rides company into a real time logistics network ABOUT US: We’re proudly sponsored by Brex - a brand I co-founded, now supporting over 30,000 businesses like Anthropic, DoorDash, and Scale AI, helping them make every dollar count.
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