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Gurley argues Waymo faces unsolvable dilemma: building fleet to average demand disappoints peak users, building to peak wastes expensive CapEx.
“And if you build it to peak, you're gonna have a bunch of very, very, very expensive CapEx sitting around doing nothing mostly.”
Gurley challenges Waymo advocates to publish twenty-year financial projections showing how owned robotaxi fleet could work economically.
“Let's build a public Google Sheet of the twenty year financial statements for this thing, and let's put it out there in the public.”
Gerstner estimates robotaxi revenue per car drops from $140K to $100K due to increased supply lowering prices despite more rides.
“When you do that in self driving, we think it goes down to about a 100,000. Why? Well, you have actually more rides in the self driven car.”
Gerstner believes robotaxis pose a fundamental risk to Uber's business model.
“I I I think this does pose a risk fundamentally to the Uber business model.”