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    Travis Kalanick on Building Atoms After Uber

    Travis Kalanick, Ben Horowitz, Erik Torenberg

    Travis Kalanick has launched Atoms, a unified industrial entity dedicated to automating food, mining, and transport sectors through a proprietary "Industrial AI" platform that integrates robotics with software. The company operates as a single organization with independent business units led by former Uber executives, aiming to deliver meals at under $6 while boosting mining efficiency by 20% annually. With a strategic focus on high-scale hardware and a culture driven by meritocratic confrontation, Atoms recently secured its largest funding check from Ben Horowitz to challenge industry leaders like Elon Musk in the race for physical automation.

  2. a16z1h 32m

    Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z

    Travis Kalanick, Ben Horowitz, Erik Torenberg

    Travis Kalanick, reflecting on lessons from his 2017 departure from Uber, is now leading ADAM, a stealth-backed venture that digitizes physical manufacturing and logistics to drive meal costs down to $8–$10. By integrating over 300 dark kitchen facilities and autonomous mining operations acquired from Pronto, the company leverages robotics to transform heavy industries while avoiding the external pressures that previously hindered Uber's scalability. Kalanick applies an "Industrial AI" framework focused on internal correctness and management capacity constraints to scale operations in food, mining, and transport simultaneously.

  3. a16z38 min

    How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure

    Augusto Marietti, Martin Casado, Aghi, Travis Kalanick, Sam Altman

    Founders Auggie Azzurri and Marco pivoted MassShape to the open-source API gateway Kong after enduring a seven-year struggle with limited capital and visa restrictions, ultimately securing a Series B backed by Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt. This strategic shift from a failed marketplace to infrastructure allowed the company to scale to over $100 million ARR by dominating the microservices management space. Today, Kong is expanding its platform to address the emerging needs of AI agents, positioning itself as essential infrastructure for token management and LLM routing.