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They should start a credit card business. Rakuten did this to great effect in Japan. Use the credit card, get points you can use for Uber. Customer acquisition
by zangiku 9y ago
They should start a credit card business. Rakuten did this to great effect in Japan. Use the credit card, get points you can use for Uber. Customer acquisition is as cheap as putting a signup form in the back of each car and incentivizing drivers to mention it.
- rodgerd 9y agoAn ubercoin and ICO would be more buzzword compliant.
- quickthrower2 9y agoWe need an ICO jar. One Bitcoin in the jar everytime an ICO is mentioned in jest.
- eric_h 9y agoGiven the current value of bitcoin, I think we'd need to put a satoshi in the jar (I'm personally not swimming in bitcoin)
- cylinder 9y agoUCO: Uber Coin Offering. The coins are mined by the power created by the regenerative braking of Uber vehicles.
- saryant 9y agoBarclays is already rolling out an Uber credit card: https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-and-lyft-look-to-hail-credit-card-deals-1501425094 https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-and-lyft-look-to-hail-cred...
- tedmiston 9y agoSearched around for it but there looks to be very little known info about the card right now (no rewards description etc).
- 0xB31B1B 9y agoThey should do some sort of bankless electronic payments like their competitor go Jek in SE Asia is doing