Jason Droege is the CEO of Scale AI, a company that provides foundational training data to every major AI lab. He previously co-founded Scour with Travis Kalanick and built Uber Eats from idea to $20 billion in revenue. In this conversation, Jason shares lessons from getting sued for $250 billion, discovering restaurant economics by weighing sandwich ingredients, and over 25 years of launching transformative technology businesses.
What you’ll learn:
What actually happened with Meta’s $14 billion investment in Scale AI [10:27]
Why AI models still need human experts to improve, and how that relationship is evolving [28:18]
How AI models learn from experts building websites and debugging code [18:48]
The business lessons from building Uber Eats from zero to $20 billion [41:43]
Why most enterprise data is useless for AI models today [25:53]
Why urgent daily problems bea