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Published · transcript-backedBrad Stone: evaluation
1 Mar 2017 Acquired The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store
“Of course, it’s very fashionable to say you’re looking into it. It’s unclear to me now whether Didi has made the progress of, say, Uber which is testing cars now in Pittsburgh and a few other cities.”
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- Brad Stone
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- evaluation
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- 1 Mar 2017
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- Acquired
Transcript context
…Do you know if Didi is also working the self-driving car offering? They are. Yeah. They’ve been trying to hire some folks and they've got a team and they’ve got some partners. I think Baidu is also exploring it in China and as is everyone now. Of course, it’s very fashionable to say you’re looking into it. It’s unclear to me now whether Didi has made the progress of, say, Uber which is testing cars now in Pittsburgh and a few other cities. One thing I learned from your book, Brad, is how fast or how recent Uber is to this sort of area of self-driving cars because they really weren’t tipped off to it until Travis got in one of the self-driving Google cars when he went to meet with Larry Page or Eric Schmidt.…
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