This is a presentation about Uber.

1. Uber
Dylan Hurd [drhurd]

2. Car Service on Demand
Black Car, Lux
uberX, uberXL
Taxi

3. Financials
$18.2B valuation after $1.2B Series D
[Google Ventures, BlackRock, others]
Revenue doubling every 6 months
[According to CEO]
> $1B in Gross Bookings for 2013
[Leaked Revenue numbers]

4. History
2008: Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick decide
they want to solve the taxi problem in SF
2010: MVP launches in NYC (Jan) & SF (July),
soon receive Cease and Desists (Oct)
2013: Lyft rises as a competitor

5. Whats Hot
UberRush

6. Secret Sauce
Uber is ruthless, but has a professional brand
Continuously adding new products
Growing exponentially

7. Uber is worth way more than $18B
Uber is “obsoletive,” not disruptive
“[Suggesting] that Uber’s ceiling is the size of
the taxi industry is no different than suggesting
typewriters are the ceiling for PCs”
http://stratechery.com/2014/uber-worth-18-2-billion/

8. Competition
Lyft: Your friend with a car
Sidecar: Shared rides with nearby users
Taxis: Old and expensive

9. Uber is going to take over
the f***ing world

10. Sources
http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uber
http://stratechery.com/2014/uber-worth-18-2-billion/
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304250204579433113467536876
http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/04/leaked-uber-numbers-which-weve-confirmed-point-to-over-1b-gross-revenue-213m-revenue/
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-06/q-and-a-travis-kalanick-on-ubers-new-17-billion-valuation#p2
http://blog.uber.com/frontpage/updates/
http://blog.uber.com/2010/12/22/ubers-founding/