Uber insider suggests the CEO will buy as many autonomous cars Tesla can make in... 2020 or whenever really

07/30/2015 - 02:46

Lucas Mearian

If Tesla can produce half a million cars by 2020, then Uber CEO Travis Kalanick will buy them all for his service, according to venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson.

Jurvetson, a Tesla board member and partner in the VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, was speaking at the recent Top 10 Tech Trends dinner, put on by the Churchill Club, when he relayed a conversation he'd had with Kalanick about his hopes for "robocars" and the future.

"Travis recently told me that in 2020, if Telsas are autonomous, he'd want to buy all of them. He said all 500,000 of estimated 2020 production, I'd want them all," Jurvetson said.

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