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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi reveals the future of driverless cars, how he led Uber’s financial turnaround, his family’s escape from Iran in 1978, and the truth about AI, automation, and job loss! Dara Khosrowshahi is the CEO of Uber and successfully transformed the company from losing $3 billion a year to generating over $9 billion in free cash flow. He previously served as CEO of Expedia for over a decade, scaling the company into a global leader in online travel. He explains: ◼️The "wartime" leadership strategy he used to save Uber from collapse ◼️Why telling the uncomfortable truth is the only way to scale a company ◼️His undercover experience as a driver and why it changed the app ◼️Why 80% of jobs face total disruption from AI automation by 2035 ◼️The truth about autonomous vehicles and banning humans from driving 00:00 Intro 03:33 Why Fleeing Iran Shaped My Risk Tolerance And Resilience 10:17 The Hardest Realization About Having Kids And Their Future 16:52 Do Engineers Actually Make Better CEOs — Or Worse? 18:11 How To Spot The One Person Worth Betting Your Career On 19:17 What Separates A Good Employee From A Truly Great One 20:52 Why Rejection Is The Hidden Engine Behind Every Successful Business 26:48 How To Spot Big Transitions Before Everyone Else Does 32:52 The Jevons Paradox: Why Efficiency Can Backfire 39:48 Why Radical Transparency Makes You A Stronger CEO 46:54 Can You Really Turn A Comfortable Team Into A Hungry One? 49:44 Ads 51:11 The Career Advice Young People Need — But Rarely Hear 57:38 How To Build A Culture Of Continuous Improvement That Never Stalls 01:01:55 Why Most Teams Fail At Goals — And How To Set Ones That Actually Work 01:06:58 What Happens When Leadership Alignment Breaks Down 01:13:54 How AI Is Reshaping Our Business — And What We’re Doing Next 01:18:53 Why 90% Of Our Coders Now Rely On AI — And What That Changes 01:23:44 Will AI Replace 9.5 Million Uber Drivers — Or Create Something Bigger? 01:35:06 The Best Advice For Thriving In An AI-Dominated Future Enjoyed the episode? Share this link and earn points for every referral - redeem them for exclusive prizes: https://doac-perks.com Follow Dara: X - https://link.thediaryofaceo.com/8IAzCZd The Diary Of A CEO: ◼️Join DOAC circle here - https://doaccircle.com/ ◼️Buy The Diary Of A CEO book here - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook ◼️The 1% Diary is back - limited time only: https://bit.ly/3YFbJbt ◼️The Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards (Second Edition): https://g2ul0.app.link/f31dsUttKKb ◼️Get email updates - https://bit.ly/diary-of-a-ceo-yt ◼️Follow Steven - https://g2ul0.app.link/gnGqL4IsKKb Sponsors: WHOOP: https://JOIN.WHOOP.COM/CEO for one month free Shopify - https://shopify.com/bartlett Wispr: Get 14 days of Wispr Flow for free at https://wisprflow.ai/STEVEN
"You come to Uber, you're going to work your ass off. And if you're not performing, we're going to let you know. >> But do you ever worry that they might not be able to deal with the truth? >> Then the..."
"California, you went to Stanford etc. >> But that is not the case. Can you take me to that earliest context so I can understand how and why you are the way that you are? >> Uh quite the quite the star..."
">> How does um cuz I'm not a father yet. >> Yes. >> But I I'm approaching that. Congratulations. Almost. >> Yeah. Almost. Yeah. I've just proposed to my fiance and we're, you know, we're in the proces..."
">> Engineers make good CEOs. >> Great CEOs. If you step back, companies are just machines, right? They're they're machines that are run by people and over a period of time you actually try to automate..."
">> And that experience I I was reading taught you about betting on people. >> Yes. >> Versus other what do you mean by betting on people and why is that important? >> It was uh it was actually a lesso..."
"there. >> What is it about one's character that makes them qualify as a great person? >> You look for success, honor, loyalty, people who will tell you what they're going to do, whether it's good or b..."
">> So, he bid for a company. He didn't get it. >> He didn't get it and and he walked away. He didn't get it cuz he walked away, which in hindsight was a was a mistake. He could have paid more. Uh and ..."
">> In your job just before you took on that role as CEO, you were buying businesses. So M&As, mergers and acquisitions, you were buying companies. Yes. >> What are some of the companies that you bough..."
">> I heard about the is it Jeans paradox? >> Yes. >> Which I think kind of sort of overlaps with what you're saying there. When things become easier, faster, cheaper, people do them not incrementally ..."
">> Three months into that role, the head of HR told you that you were scaring people. >> I've forgotten about that. >> I think that was my job. Yeah. What's the context there? >> You know the context ..."
">> Was the culture hardworking when you arrived? Could you use the word coasting to describe some of the team when you arrived at Expedia? >> Medium. I think the company had been successful for a long..."
">> New year always has a strange energy to it because people start talking about their goals, fresh starts, and new habits. But the reality is that most people carry the same ideas they had last year ..."
">> I'm so I'm so intrigued about this point of hard work because I think 10 years ago saying what you just said was very taboo. >> Yes. >> It feels to be more invoked. >> We're freed now. YES. >> YOU'..."
"not only you going to get two data points of information, but you're also increasing your probability of having a successful shot by like 100%. >> Shots on goal. Just shots on goal. >> How do you crea..."
">> So if I was in one of your teams, what how do you think about goal setting for me? >> Um all the teams have different goals, business goals. The ads team has to drive at technologydriven incrementa..."
"so the value sets that we have, go get it or one that I really like, great minds don't think alike. We came up with a with a set of values which I think is unusual and describes how we are different a..."
"And there's another um there's an alien that's arrived amongst us um which is AI. And you've you know Uber's always been somewhat powered from what I understand by very much so degree but um the world..."
"talk about a lot where there's been already sort of big dis disruption positive disruption at Uber and a lot of your coders are now using AI to >> yeah about 90% of our coders are using AI now that's ..."
"One of the real areas of disruption in AI has been autonomous vehicles. And I was just before we started recording, I was saying that uh I have a Tesla in LA where I live. >> And it's staggering that ..."
">> You've got f four kids. >> Yes. >> They come to you, they say, "Dad, listen. AI, robotics, give me some advice for my future. What should I be doing?" >> Work hard. You're going to be fine. Work ha..."