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other folks have responded about the state of Uber’s Autonomous driving program, so I just wanted to weigh in about the other question here.

GCP was not a strong competitor (in our eyes) when the on-prem decision was being made in the 2011-2013 timeframe, which was also before there was even an Autonomous program. The reason early infra was on-prem largely boiled down to a general distrust for the cloud from the Boss, who in my recollection had had some bad experiences with other portfolio companies suffering major downtime due to AWS outages.

Uber’s relationship with Google was great until that little legal matter. They were huge and very helpful investors in Uber.