India, Indonesia not kind to cloud kitchens, says Uber cofounder Travis Kalanick

In conversation with investor Peter Diamandis at the 2025 Moonshot Summit, the former Uber chief executive confessed he went into markets he shouldn’t have. “We went to some places we shouldn’t have gone. Just so happens, you can’t make money on [cloud] kitchens in India… don’t go to Indonesia, don’t go to India, don’t go to Colombia, those are the main ones.”

Kalanick’s dark kitchen venture, CloudKitchens, began as…