Watch CNBC's full interview with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
Khosrowshahi walked through Q2 results, argued the consumer is holding up, and defended Uber's autonomous-vehicle spending as a partnership-led bet rather than an in-house AV program.
Chief Executive Officer, Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER)
8 recorded appearances
Khosrowshahi walked through Q2 results, argued the consumer is holding up, and defended Uber's autonomous-vehicle spending as a partnership-led bet rather than an in-house AV program.
He made the case for Uber's $14.8B acquisition of German food-delivery group Delivery Hero and addressed global rideshare competition.
A long-form conversation on how AI is reshaping Uber's internal operations and on Uber's positioning as the demand aggregator in an autonomous-vehicle world.
Covered Q1 results, the relative growth of mobility versus delivery, the impact of the Iran war, and Uber's 'everything app' ambitions and autonomous rollout.
A non-business food conversation: Persian cooking, his childhood kitchen in Iran, and family meals. Useful only as a personal-background source.
Khosrowshahi laid out Uber's robotaxi strategy — supplying demand and fleet operations to AV partners rather than building the stack — and framed the end of human driving as a multi-decade transition.
He was blunt that autonomy will eventually displace most of Uber's ~9.5 million drivers, described the performance culture ('if you don't perform, you're out'), and detailed how AI is already used across pricing and routing.
From Davos: CEO sentiment at the World Economic Forum, U.S.-Europe relations, the state of the consumer, Uber's growth strategy, and the Iran protests.