Travis Kalanick
Co-founder and former chief executive of Uber, now chief executive of CloudKitchens and of Adams, an industrial AI company automating food, mining and transport.
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Everything in the physical world was grown or mined, manufactured and moved, and automating those industrial sectors is what industrial AI means.
Everything we see, whether it's this room or any room or anywhere you go, everything you see was either grown or mined, manufactured and moved. Everything. And so we look at what we do as industrial AI.
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World Said 14 Aug 2026
Digitising the physical world means treating atoms like bits, with manufacturing as the processor, real estate as the storage and logistics as the network.
But if you're digitizing the physical world, you're treating atoms like bits. And you're like, well, I know that CPU manipulates the bits. What manipulates atoms? That's manufacturing or digitized manufacturing.
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World Said 14 Aug 2026
Superintelligence bottoms out in mining, because both the chips and the energy it runs on come out of the ground.
Chips come from the ground. Where's the energy come from? And a lot of people are like, "Oh, it comes from the sun." Yeah, it comes from the sun. But how are you capturing it from the sun? From stuff made from the ground, right?
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World Said 14 Aug 2026
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Industrial-scale automation will be done by specialised machines that move on wheels, not by humanoid robots, which only suit low-scale tasks in human environments.
If you're doing highcale tasks, industrial scale tasks, you are going to make specialized machines that move and act in the physical world. The key part is move. If they're moving, they got to have wheels.
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World Said 14 Aug 2026
Ride-hailing is only the gold medal of transport; food delivery, parcels, trucking and off-road autonomy are silver medals each worth hundreds of billions.
So, we know Phelps is the gold medals guy, but I like to say that transport is full of silver medals, right? A lot of people think about ride sharing as a gold medal. What about food delivery? What about parcel delivery?
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World Said 14 Aug 2026
A company's edge comes from discovering valuable unknown truths, because knowing what others do not is what lets you do what others cannot.
if you are good at finding valuable unknown truths then it means you're going to know a lot of things other people don't know. And if you know a lot of things that other people don't know it means you can do a lot of things that other people can't do.
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World Said 14 Aug 2026
The final obstacle to any new technology is resistance to change, so you have to deliver an overwhelming amount of progress to get the change through.
It's called resistance to change. It's natural because like you know a lot of times change is bad. Um and so you have to deliver an overwhelming amount of progress to make your change happen.
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World Said 14 Aug 2026
A company where nobody is willing to upset anybody ends up fighting for the mediocre, politically expedient idea instead of the best one.
there's so many people that are not willing to fight for the best idea because they're going to upset somebody else. And if you don't fight for the best idea, then what idea are you fighting for? You're fighting for the mediocre idea, the politically expedient idea
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World Said 14 Aug 2026
Once mining is automated end to end, a mining company is nothing but the owner of some real estate.
Will mining get automated? And if it does, not just the movement of the materials, but every part of mining. Then what is a mining company? It just owns real estate.
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World Said 14 Aug 2026
Automating both the production and the delivery of food will make a prepared meal cheaper than going to the grocery store.
then there will be a service that that prepares and delivers that food at cheaper than going to the grocery store. And if that happens, this occurs and food will be completely revolutionized.
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World Said 14 Aug 2026
Being pissed off is what makes an entrepreneur good, and getting used to adversity dulls the edge that comes with it.
There are things you don't get like like I'm like so used to adversity at this point that it's kind of normal. So I don't get as pissed off. But being pissed off makes you good as an entrepreneur.
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World Said 14 Aug 2026
When a business starts to feel easy it is about to get very hard; comfort is the warning sign, not the reward.
And I've talked to a lot of entrepreneurs over the years where they're like, "Oh man, we're just cranking. We're on easy street right now." And I'm like, "Dude, you are about to get your ass whooped and you don't even know it."
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World Said 14 Aug 2026
Business had become politics without anyone noticing, which is why almost everything said about a company a decade ago was negative.
the media landscape 10 years ago, 90% of what was said was very negative. Business had become politics and we didn't know it.
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World Said 14 Aug 2026
Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter is the beginning of people being able to speak their minds again, and of disagreeing not being treated as illegal.
you know Elon buying Twitter is like the beginning of us being able to speak our minds and for disagreeing to not be illegal. That's a big deal. We should all thank Elon for that.
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World Said 14 Aug 2026
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