Uber and Lyft were just not meant to be, says Travis Kalanick.
In an Andreessen Horowitz interview released on Friday, the former Uber CEO said he has no regrets about how he handled a potential acquisition of Lyft.
“I wouldn’t do anything different. And it’s easy to say now, but I got a lot of shit for that for a long time,” he said. “I would sit across the table from the guys, and it was just clear that we were very culturally different.”
Uber held acquisition talks to buy its rival Lyft in 2014. The negotiations fell apart because Kalanick refused to pay more than $2 billion, while Lyft was seeking a higher valuation. In Friday’s interview…
