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Google will acquire them. They already own shares from a Google venture round
by wand3r 9y ago
Google will acquire them. They already own shares from a Google venture round
- user5994461 9y agoWho would want to acquire a company like that. They'd have to fire all the employees and management to get rid of the bad seed.
- ceejayoz 9y agoThe customer and driver network is probably substantially more valuable.
- ghostly_s 9y agoHa. Probably 70-80% of both customers and drivers are doing business with Lyft, simultaneously. That's the rub of "contract employees".
- WillPostForFood 9y agoWhy crap on the employees for the lousy behaviour of the execs? You think the average programmer or office manage or designer at Uber is at fault?
- user5994461 9y agoThe exec influence goes down to the employees. Expect most mid managers and the upper hierarchy to be modelled by the top. Then about the bottom employees. Think a minute about what employees are left in that kind of environment and the psychological baggage they might carry.
- WillPostForFood 9y agoThat's silly - it's like saying you guilty of being a citizen of the US under Trump.
- inlined 9y agoAnd about half of us are
- user5994461 9y agoYou don't get to pick your president and you can't change it. However you pick your job and you can leave it anytime you want.
- ardivekar 9y agoTechnically yes. Practically, no.
- __jal 9y agoIt isn't so much about crapping on the employees as recognizing reality. Nobody wants a piece of Uber for the office managers or designers.
- wand3r 9y agoWhy, someone just paid a lot of money to train Uber employees on Google technology
- synaesthesisx 9y agoThey can rebrand it as Goober afterwards though