The key for (us in) China is to move fast, if we launch in the U.S. and then it gets copied in China, we'll be behind. So we're starting to orient some of our innovation at China first.

Chief Executive Travis Kalanick

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I was in China 70 days last year and 100 times a day someone would say 'Travis, no Internet technology company has ever succeeded. I don't know if you should be here', as an entrepreneur, that's the best thing you can hear ... you're always turning it into the positive, and trying to make the impossible possible is what we do. Adventure with a purpose is what we do.

Chief Executive Travis Kalanick

If you took our top 30 cities today, today they're generating over $1 billion in profit a year, just our top 30 cities. And that profit multiplies every year because we're growing.

Chief Executive Travis Kalanick

We can get introductions to the city governments, the government officials that want to shepherd our kind of innovation and our kind of progress into their cities.

Chief Executive Travis Kalanick

Progress is something we see the government be incredibly open to, whether it be about more jobs and less pollution, less congestion on the streets, better utilisation of infrastructure, that kind of progress always has to be in harmony with stability and that is one of the big things that we partnered with the government on.

Chief Executive Travis Kalanick