Iman Shumpert says he invested in Uber early because Black people couldn’t get a cab in New York, then cashed out for a couple hundred thousand before realizing how big it would become “When Uber first came out, I thought it was a cool idea. I like grabbing cabs and stuff. This is back when I first got drafted to New York. When you flag down a cab, Black people can't get no cab. I was like, ‘haha haha.’ You know what I mean. But this Uber thing is smart though cuz that guarantee I don't look stupid trying to get a cab and y'all just don't stop” “It might be raining. I might got to go fast. It made sense. So I put a little money into it and the moment that little money turned over a couple of times, I took my little money out. Looking back on it, if I sat for long enough, as early as that was, I can't tell you how much I would have made off that. I might have made a contract or two off of that” “I'm sitting here with a couple hundred thousand all happy and grand scheme of things, I never would have imagined it would have rolled over into how big it became. In my mind this was only operating in New York. I don't know why my brain left Chicago out, left LA out. I left out all the big cities, all the small cities, all the cities that people needed jobs, people need this, people need that. It taught me how to look at things”