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Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It's the late '90s, and Travis Kalanick is hanging out in his dorm room at UCLA. He’s having a file-sharing party with his friends that leads to his first business. But Kalanick’s forced to grow up quickly as he learns that naïveté can cost you millions and Silicon Valley investors aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.

Logan Green finds inspiration while stuck in horrible LA traffic and adopts a new anti-car ethos that will shape Lyft’s mission. And on the East Coast, John Zimmer learns how to woo customers — a skill he’ll translate into startup success.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to business wars, add free on Amazon Music.
0:04.8	Download the app today.
0:07.0	1997.
0:16.6	A Stuffy Dorm Room on UCLA's campus.
0:19.7	Travis Kalanick is sitting at his desk chatting with a few buddies online.
0:23.2	They're having a file sharing party, downloading music and sending the songs to each other,
0:27.9	sharing movie files.
0:29.6	Maybe even some naughty pictures.
0:32.6	One of Kalanick's friends messages their group.
0:35.6	Wouldn't it be cool if we had a page where we could search for some of this stuff directly?
0:40.3	Another friend chimes in.
0:42.2	Wow, yeah.
0:43.0	Like a library anyone could download files from?
0:46.0	Yeah, then it wouldn't just be between us.
0:48.7	It could be everyone in the world.
0:50.8	Imagine how much music we could download.
0:53.8	Kalanick jumps in.
0:55.7	That would be gnarly.
0:57.0	We should make it a club project.
1:00.2	When Kalanick and his friends aren't in their comp's side classes, they're holed up in computer
1:04.8	club so they immediately start tinkering.
1:07.7	Eventually they build the search engine scour.net.
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