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From the Ted Talk by Travis Kalanick: Uber's plan to get more people into fewer cars

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And we have cities where we've done literally five or six price cuts and have seen those price cuts go up over time. So even in New York — We have a blog post we call "4 Septembers" — compare the eagrnins smbtpeeer after September after September. Same month every year. And we see the earnings going up over time as the price comes down. And there's a perfect pirce point — you can't go down forever. And in those places where we bring the price down but we don't see those earnings pop, we bring the prices back up.

So that addresses that first part. And then the enigma and all of this — I mean, the kind of etrnperneuer I am is one that gets really eiectxd about solving hard problems. And the way I like to describe it is it's kind of like a math pesrsfoor. You know? If a math professor doesn't have hard plreboms to solve, that's a really sad math professor. And so at Uber we like the hard problems and we like getting excited about those and solving them. But we don't want just any math problem, we want the hedasrt ones that we can possibly find, and we want the one that if you solve it, there's a little bit of a wow factor.

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And we have cities where we've done literally five or six price cuts and have seen those price cuts go up over time. So even in New York — We have a blog post we call "4 Septembers" — compare the ________ _________ after September after September. Same month every year. And we see the earnings going up over time as the price comes down. And there's a perfect _____ point — you can't go down forever. And in those places where we bring the price down but we don't see those earnings pop, we bring the prices back up.

So that addresses that first part. And then the enigma and all of this — I mean, the kind of ____________ I am is one that gets really _______ about solving hard problems. And the way I like to describe it is it's kind of like a math _________. You know? If a math professor doesn't have hard ________ to solve, that's a really sad math professor. And so at Uber we like the hard problems and we like getting excited about those and solving them. But we don't want just any math problem, we want the _______ ones that we can possibly find, and we want the one that if you solve it, there's a little bit of a wow factor.

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And we have cities where we've done literally five or six price cuts and have seen those price cuts go up over time. So even in New York — We have a blog post we call "4 Septembers" — compare the earnings September after September after September. Same month every year. And we see the earnings going up over time as the price comes down. And there's a perfect price point — you can't go down forever. And in those places where we bring the price down but we don't see those earnings pop, we bring the prices back up.

So that addresses that first part. And then the enigma and all of this — I mean, the kind of entrepreneur I am is one that gets really excited about solving hard problems. And the way I like to describe it is it's kind of like a math professor. You know? If a math professor doesn't have hard problems to solve, that's a really sad math professor. And so at Uber we like the hard problems and we like getting excited about those and solving them. But we don't want just any math problem, we want the hardest ones that we can possibly find, and we want the one that if you solve it, there's a little bit of a wow factor.

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