Niraj Patel

I’m a big fan of SpotHero, I use it weekly. A rare gem for downtown parking. Congrats to the team.

💯 .. and the @Spothero team is kickass 👊

Uber is acquiring @SpotHero! 🅿️🚗 We built @Uber around enabling more people to get around without a car, but for times when you do choose to drive - commutes, events, family travel, airports - soon you'll be able to reserve a spot right from the Uber app

Our secret sauce is putting a digital layer on the physical world. Parking is a natural manifestation of that. Excited to bring Uber magic to (yet) another inefficient, fragmented, under-utilized, physical world experience investor.uber.com/news-events/ne…

Thank you @lioron for your leadership to grow @UberFreight! @UberFreight team, let’s go!!!

Grateful to @lioron for his leadership founding and building @UberFreight - he leaves an incredible legacy and it is still early days Thrilled to work with @RebeccaTinucci as she steps into the CEO role and continues to have impact @Uber

A major step in Uber’s autonomous strategy: • 20K+ Lucid vehicles • Powered by @Nuro’s Level 4 autonomy • Exclusive to @Uber • Launching 2026 in a top US city This is scale, technology, and utilization coming together in a way that only can happen on @Uber. cnbc.com/2025/07/17/ube…

Uber + @limebike = your fav duo. 🛴 Starting today, get 10% back in Uber One credits when you ride Lime — plus up to 5 free unlocks if you’re new. Let’s ride 🍋‍🟩

@SecDuffy Dedicated curbside pickup ground transportation lanes at airports for parents who need a minute to install car seats in rideshare or family cars picking them up. Would help people with disabilities and the elderly as well.

Tell me how we can Make Traveling with Family Great Again! There’s no better place to start a family than the USA so I want to make it easier for you to travel with your kids. Here’s your chance to tell me, your Transportation Secretary, what I can do to make travel easier for your family. Send me your best ideas!

Why is the file finder dialog on Mac so horrifically bad? There's no "go to parent directory" option. Even just navigating to my home folder is difficult. The "recents" menu seems to only include a small fraction of files perhaps from a few apps that opt in. It's insane.

Uber opens 'interest list' for Waymo robotaxi rides in Austin cnbc.com/2025/02/05/ube…

PBMs are entities that negotiate with drug manufacturers on what drugs will be covered by insurance plans and what prices the manufacturers and pharmacies will be paid. Then they also “negotiate” with the insurance companies what prices they will pay for those drugs (in air quotes because the insurance companies’ captive PBMs control like 75% of the market). Those two prices - paid by insurers and paid to manufacturer/distributor - are decoupled, and the PBMs keep the spread. Inherently the incentive for any PBM is to negotiate prices to be set at maximum willingness to pay by the insurer and at lowest possible price paid to the manufacturer, in order to maximize their take. It’s even worse because the big insurer owns the PBM who’s keeping that spread, so they have no incentive to try and push the price they’re paying down. The net result is prices set for the consumer (whether they pay out of pocket or through their insurance premiums) are grossly overinflated. It’s not even about drugs that are patented and have a reasonable explanation for being expensive - you’re talking about stuff that costs pennies to make. PBMs should simply be eliminated, IMO - or at least I’ve yet to hear a steelman argument against it. Why should there be any additional delta between what a manufacturer or pharmacy is being paid and what the cost is to the patient? The supplier margin is already being covered.

What is a “pharmacy benefit manager”?

@BoringBiz_ Multiply by another 10 for “TAM expansion” and you have a startup pitch 😂

Not even exaggerating, but this is exactly the type of math you see management consultants doing to estimate TAM of a niche industry x.com/erenbali/statu…

@OptimumHelp @optimum our internet has been out since Friday, tech yesterday told us it was an issue with a box/node in the area (neighbors having issues too). You didn’t detect it as an outage, we all had to ask for techs to come out who then figured it out. No timeline on fixing other than “24-72 hours”…can we get something better than that??

looking to invest in a startup that’s protecting our critical infrastructure from squirrels…who is building this

@alexisohanian Do you think it’s different for non-founder CEOs (eg need to steer / guide more than direct)? Or is this just what all CEOs need to do?

Founder CEO has to set the pace. Every day.

Every time I see this my eye goes to the “starting at 8pm est” part, when it’s not actually happening tonight. Every time I see it, my brain’s first reaction is that it’s happening today. I didn’t notice the “coming soon” text until I was posting this screenshot! Scroll one thing over and the headline is “coming Sunday” which is obviously a lot clearer / more useful. @netflix

Awesome to see! Rethinking the ‘one person - one car’ mentality is worth the effort. A few key findings worth highlighting…

This week, we’re beginning to welcome riders in Austin from our interest list to try our fully autonomous ride-hail experience. Riders will travel across 37 square miles of the city, as we prepare for our commercial launch early next year - exclusively on the Uber app. Learn more: waymo.com/atx

Uber Is Launching Chartered Safaris in South Africa — and No, They're Not in a Camry (Exclusive) people.com/uber-safaris-c…