importantSYS.SOURCE: TechCrunch• 2026-07-14T00:45:00Z

Uber's Strategic Expansion into Travel and Financial Services Amid Focus on Core Competencies

#autonomous vehicles #financial services #partnerships

Uber's product chief discusses expanding into travel services (hotels, boat rentals) and financial offerings for drivers, while emphasizing strategic partnerships and avoiding a 'everything app' model. The company is developing autonomous vehicle data operations through AV Labs amid complex relationships with competitors like Waymo.

Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company's financial-services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is starting to show up in ways riders and drivers will actually notice.

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