这次活动备受海内外关注的另一个原因，是包括苹果、脸书、Uber、阿里巴巴、百度在内的中美互联网企业的第一梯队”联合现身西雅图。
            

　　

       

 　　当地时间9月23日上午，第八届“中美互联网论坛”在西雅图隆重举行，这也是此次中国国家主席习近平访美的重头戏之一。国家互联网信息办公室主任鲁炜，发表了主旨演讲，呼吁中美互利共赢、领航未来。

　　

       

 　　这次活动备受海内外关注的另一个原因，是包括苹果、脸书、Uber、阿里巴巴、百度在内的中美互联网企业的第一梯队”联合现身西雅图。其中，Uber创始人兼CEO卡兰尼克(Travis Kalanick)和比尔·盖茨、马云、马化腾一起，共同参加了“科技和人性带动经济增长”分论坛环节。

　　

       

 　　卡兰尼克在发言中表示，对于Uber来说，首要的企业文化就是为“城市喝彩”，让城市更加美好，为此愿意在出行领域尝试一切可能。希望最终实现人们只要按一个按钮，就可以从A点抵达B点。这一切都基于一个非常简单的前提，那就是“你不需要拥有一辆车，通过Uber，你可以每天与20-30人分享一辆汽车”。

　　他解释说，这种分享出行模式，不仅可以缓解交通拥堵、减少空气污染，更重要的是，会创造大量的就业机会。目前在全世界范围内，Uber每月新增数十万的工作机会，这个数字很快会增至百万量级。Uber已经做出承诺，到2020年，将为女性创造100万个直接就业机会。

　　卡兰尼克称，他对实现这一目标有信心。由于平台更加安全，在Uber司机中，女性所占的比重比传统出租车行业高出了20-25倍。

　　除了能为未充分就业和失业人群创造直接就业机会之外，他强调，这种分享经济模式最大的受益者，其实是中低甚至低收入群体。因为富人自己拥有汽车，随时可以穿梭往来，他们并不是Uber的目标群体。由于在Uber所服务的很多城市，资费都降低到只有出租车一半的水平，从而使得交通更加便捷;实际上，作为一种替代的交通方式，Uber有四成的行程，都来自过去交通极为不便的地区。

　　以下是中英文发言实录：

　　问题：您能谈一下贵公司如何处理技术和发展之间的关系吗?

　　Travis Kalanick:

　　因为Uber一直活跃在O2O领域(线下到线上，或者线上到线下)的前沿，经济发展的细节每天都发生在眼前，很高兴和大家分享我们的故事。Uber最重要的企业文化就是“为城市喝彩”，它引领着我们在出行领域提升城市的发展空间。人们只要按下一个按钮，就可以从A点抵达B点。Uber提的是一个简单的承诺，那就是“你不需要拥有，通过Uber，你每天可以和20-30人共享一辆车”。如此一来，你不仅缓解了交通拥堵，减少空气污染，还因此获得了额外的时间。最重要的是，城市就业机会也因此得到了大幅提高，我们在每一个座自己服务的城市里直接创造了就业。目前在全世界范围内，我们仅用一个月的时间就创造了数以十万计的工作机会，这个数字很快就会达到百万。我们的城市运营团队大部分来自该城市本地居民们的子女，能为自己的家乡做点事情，他们感到极其自豪。促进经济发展对于Uber来说，只是目标当中一个非常明确的部分。

　　问题： Travis，在技术以及经济增长模式方面仍存在着一些批评的声音，原因是它们对于拉大贫富差距的影响，它们引发的不平等问题，企业之间的相互影响以及对女性的影响等等，以上这些问题在经济增长模式的作用下往往会被漠视。而这些问题总是会被抛向科技创业者，我想知道您是怎么看的。

　　Travis Kalanick:

　　每个企业都不同，我无法代表所有人，但对Uber而言，道理直接明了。富人拥有汽车，随时可以穿梭往来，那么他们可能不是Uber的目标群体。Uber的服务在很多城市当中，接近出租车价格的一半。我们正在为那些未充分就业和失业的人群创造就业机会，Uber已做出承诺，到2020年，要为女性创造100万个直接就业机会。我们对实现这一承诺非常有信心，是因为Uber平台具有很强的安全性和可靠性。在我们平台上，女性司机比例是出租车的20至25倍。第二，就是可以使交通变得更加便捷：作为一种备选的出行方式，Uber目前有40%的行程是覆盖了过去交通极为不便的地区，居住在这些区域的人们如今能够快捷出行，付出的价钱却只有出租车的一半。Uber一直非常务实地关注低收入人群，帮助他们提升生活质量。我对我们所投身的事业充满激情。

　　Question:

　　Would you like to talk about the relationship between technology and development in your business?

　　Travis Kalanick:

　　Look, I think we are at an interesting place I think when it comes to internet technology because we are at the forefront of what is refereed as in China as O to O (Offline to Online, or Online to Offline), and the economic development story becomes really really obvious and really straightforward for us. Our first cultural value is what we call celebrate the city. What does that mean for us? That starts with everything we do in a city is about making the city better, and our world is about transportation. So you can get from Point A to Point B by just pressing a button. And it’s that simple premise that means, well, “I no longer have to have a car, and by doing this, I can have one car that’s shared across 20-30 people in a day”, and now you’ve got reduced congestion which is of course giving a lot of time back to people, you have reduced pollution, but most importantly you have a massive increase in jobs, and creating jobs directly in the cities that we serve. And so we’re today creating hundreds of thousands of jobs a month around the world, and that’s pretty quickly going to get into the millions, and it’s because again we have a new model for how to get around cities. So our city teams that sort of operate the businesses, they are sort of the sons and daughters of those cities, they are incredibly proud of the benefit and the things that they’re doing for the city, and the economic development just a very crystal clear part of the purpose and meaning of Uber.

　　Question: Travis, and also my other colleagues, because one of the areas you hear criticism bout technology, even about economic growth models, is the impact that it has on widening the gap between rich and poor, inequality, a number of you have addressed unemployment issues, small business the impact on small business, the impact on women, some of these issues are ones that are leveled at economic growth models. I think these are the kinds of things that are lobbed at technology entrepreneurs all the time.

　　Travis Kalanick:

　　Of course every business is different, and so I can’t speak for all of them, but for us its super straightforward. Rich people already have cars shuttling them around all the time, okay, so the Uber product is not for rich people. The Uber product in many cities, in most cities, is close to half the price of a taxi. The Uber product is creating jobs for those who are underemployed or unemployed, so this is a super straightforward thing for us. We’ve made a commitment that by the year 2020, creating a million new jobs for women directly as drivers. We can do that because of the safety that we bring to the platform. We have something like 20-25 times the percentage of women driving on our system vs. the taxi system. And then of course the access of transportation, being a transportation alternative in cities means that 40% of our trips are going to places that were underserved by transportation alternatives that exist in a city, and so now people who couldn’t get around now can, when they need to and they can do it at haft the price of a taxi. So in so many ways our business is actually focused on lower middle class or even lower class in helping to bring that up. And so it goes back to what I was saying earlier, just obviously very excited about the work we are doing.