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# uber — 8 quotes

UBER

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I wrote a $25,000 check into Uber. It's worth about $100 million now. That's the power of angel investing.

angel-investingreturns— Angel book / interviews
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I invested $500,000 in Uber. Everyone said an actor has no business doing venture capital. That check is worth more than my entire acting career.

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Uber putting Lime in their app was transformative. When someone opens Uber and sees a scooter option for a 1-mile trip, they take it.

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Uber is efficiency with elegance on top.

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Uber is a platform. We don't just move people. We move food, packages, freight — anything that needs to get from A to B.

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I got into Uber before the Series A. It wasn't about the numbers — it was about watching how people reacted when they used it.

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We backed Uber when it was just a black car service for San Francisco techies. Nobody else wanted to write that check.

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I invested in Uber because the product felt like magic. You press a button and a car appears. That’s what I look for — magic.

magicproduct— Interview, 2015