TBPN · 2026-07-22 · 46 min
This is our full interview with Travis Kalanick. We discuss his new $1.7 billion funding round, why he's betting on industrial AI instead of consumer AI, how autonomous mining can increase productivity by 30 to 40%, why he believes AI will make food dramatically cheaper, what he looks for when hiring executives, lessons from scaling Uber, the future of robotics, AI regulation, and why he commutes to work on a jet ski. TBPN is made possible by: Ramp - Public - Cisco - Console - CrowdStrike - Figma - MongoDB - NYSE - Railway - Shopify - Codex -
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