Uber is disruptive -- to the municipal authorities who regulate taxis. Other than that, they're a taxi company with an Internet dispatch system. There are even

Uber is disruptive -- to the municipal authorities who regulate taxis. Other than that, they're a taxi company with an Internet dispatch system. There are even fewer regulated monopolies that can follow the Uber path (Airbnb is one of them). Uber was uniquely able to disrupt a bunch of municipal taxi regulators because a single taxi regulator does not have a very large budget. Uber can outspend them, set a few precedents in case law, and it was over. The strategy doesn't work in an industry with centralized regulation (USDA, FDA, FCC) or in an industry with a colossal amount of money involved (anything health care related).