Travis Kalanick

American entrepreneur

1. 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.

   Travis Kalanick · The a16z Show · Ben Horowitz and Travis Kalanick on Building Again · 2026-08-14

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

   Travis Kalanick · The a16z Show · Ben Horowitz and Travis Kalanick on Building Again · 2026-08-14

3. You get too used to adversity and that's kind of a problem.

   Travis Kalanick · The a16z Show · Ben Horowitz and Travis Kalanick on Building Again · 2026-08-14

• $UBER — 54 mentions
• $LYFT — 5 mentions
• $DASH DoorDash — 4 mentions
• $VALE — 3 mentions
• $AMZN Amazon — 3 mentions
• $TSLA Tesla — 2 mentions
• $AKAM Akamai — 1 mention
• $GOOG Google — 1 mention
• The a16z Show · Ben Horowitz and Travis Kalanick on Building Again · 2026-08-14
• The a16z Show · Building the Physical AI Stack | Travis Kalanick on TBPN · 2026-07-23
• The a16z Show · Travis Kalanick Is Back | Building the Future of Industrial AI · 2026-07-22
• TBPN · Inside Travis Kalanick’s Wild New AI Company · 2026-07-22
• TBPN · HackingFace, White House $5B AI Science Bet, Travis Kalanick Joins | Veeral Patel, Lin Qiao, Jason Fried, Travis Kalanick, Max Hodak · 2026-07-22
• All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter · 2026-06-26