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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
16 Sept 2016 Acquired Android
“Yep. So at this point, sitting here in September 2016, Uber I believe is the most highly valued private technology company in the world.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
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- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 16 Sept 2016
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Android
Transcript context
…And if you've seen that written, that’s X-I-A-O-M-I. Yep. So at this point, sitting here in September 2016, Uber I believe is the most highly valued private technology company in the world. Xiaomi, I believe, is the second valued at somewhere I believe between $40 to $50 billion in their last financing. And Xiaomi is interesting. Much like Samsung and others have been accused of just copying the iPhone but what Xiaomi has done, Samsung was completely reliant on Google. They just made the hardware and then they had some software “skins” that they would put on top of Android. But it’s running Google Android. Xiaomi, as we talked about, completely forked Android, have their own branch of Android that they fully control. There’s a startup called Cyanogen that has also done the same thing that only distributes the operating system. Kindle Fire does the same.…
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