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People say this a lot, so I am not picking on you, but I don't get this argument at all. Amazon does it, so does Lasership and Seamless and Fedex and WalMart an
by CPLX 10y ago
People say this a lot, so I am not picking on you, but I don't get this argument at all. Amazon does it, so does Lasership and Seamless and Fedex and WalMart and a million other variations. I don't see any real reason Uber is more adept at adjacent non-core market verticals than any other top tier entrant.
- mikeash 10y agoDon't forget Domino's. They and others in their business had this whole thing with drivers using their own cars for short notice transportation jobs decades ago.
- sjg007 10y agoIt's like uber for pizza.
- adgulacti 10y agomore like uber is domino's for people
- codecamper 10y agoMaybe domino's could carry passengers one way. Order a pizza. Get a pizza & a passenger too!
- macspoofing 10y agoThat's a great point. To add to it, as Uber grows, it'll take on weight and inertia and become as rigid, bloated and inflexible as other successful Fortune 500 companies. They'll have departments, and department heads who want good quarterly numbers and will not want to rock the boat too much. They'll have shareholders who'll want a good return and not expensive moonshots. And I mean that all in a good way. There's nothing wrong with that. WalMart didn't miss out by not building a search engine 10 years ago. It's not what they know.