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13 Jun 2023 Acquired Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi

“I think that there's always a delay between inputs and outputs, which is you can start changing the inputs in terms of how you build a system, et cetera.”

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13 Jun 2023
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…Everything you just said, that's always been the story of Uber. It seems like in the past few years, though, especially relative to your competitors, it's actually become more of a reality. I'm curious, maybe you talked about Booking being execution machines. What does the Uber execution machine look like since the pandemic to maybe make that more of a reality? I think that there's always a delay between inputs and outputs, which is you can start changing the inputs in terms of how you build a system, et cetera. It takes a while for the outputs to become emergent. We did take a big step post pandemic once Eats got the size to merge all the teams together, the technical teams together, the marketplace teams together, single earner team, et cetera. When Eats was small, it needed its own dedicated teams because if you had one team doing rides and Eats, all the attention would go to rides. Once we combined the teams, that allowed one technical team to really focus on the demand side, Eats as the recipient. The rides business has most of the audience. Generally, we move more people from rides to Eats. It's an almost free customer acquisition tool for Eats. It's your largest customer acquisition channel for Eats, right?…

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