r. uber. inthat time, they were only san francisco.he competition is hundreds of thousands of black cars, this could never be successful. and then travis said, this is an logistics platform. he explained it. my worry was about, how do you scale the company? emily: travis was convincing you, you were not convincing him to let you in? troy: right, he sold me on the vision. we had a pretty significant network. jay-z and the rock nation team into uber. emily: you are also an investor in lyft, how does that work? troy: we actually invested in another company, where they provide carpooling from dormitories at school to campuses. six months later, we invested in car, just the black service. they were completely noncompetitive. and then uber x, andd over -- uber they wanted to kill each other. some people have the opinion that it will be winner takes all. as we look at this complicated transportation ecosystem, i feel like there will be enough room for both. it will be winner take most, but i don't think winner take all. emily: what is your ph

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