Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is okay with reinventing the bus

Today, I’m talking with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. We recorded this conversation the day Uber announced a big set of product updates, including new options for shared rides and some features to make commuting easier and more predictable. Dara was in New York for all that, so he came to our studio, and we did this one together, which always makes for a great episode. As it happens, the traffic in New York that day was truly terrible — so we started by talking about how often Dara actually takes an Uber, what that’s like for him, and what it’s like when he goes and serves as an Uber driver, something he does regularly. There’s a lot of security around an Uber Eats delivery when Dara’s behind the wheel, it turns out. Listen to Decoder, a show hosted by The Verge’s Nilay Patel about big ideas — and other problems. Subscribe here! Uber might be the single best example of the major service apps that boomed into existence in the early part of the smartphone era. In the simplest terms, I t ... Read full article.