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a16z|Jul 23, 2026 02:41
Travis Kalanick on the Uber program that had to be renamed: "We would recruit the drivers on Lyft to bring them over to Uber, so that it was hard for Lyft to build supply." "We would aggressively do it, and we had a program for it internally, which we called shoplifting." "Then I had antitrust training. At the time I'm this small startup kid. I'm like, 'Antitrust? What the hell is that? I can't wait to have that problem.'" "They're like, 'Look, the way you call projects, it has to be appropriate for a 10-year-old basketball team.'" "So it went from shoplifting to the North American Championship Series. We called it the NACS." @travisk @bhorowitz @eriktorenberg(a16z)
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