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Doesn’t seem it. Read any article about Uber. The LAST thing they seem to be concerned with is ride sharing. While everyone else is trying to be the Uber of X.
by SlowRobotAhead 8y ago
Doesn’t seem it. Read any article about Uber. The LAST thing they seem to be concerned with is ride sharing.
While everyone else is trying to be the Uber of X... Uber doesn’t even want to be Uber. Their latest thing is taking funding from the US Military for some project iirc.
This “technology” company has no idea what it really is.
- arcticbull 8y agoTheir core business is losing money hand over fist, and it's not clear the economics will ever work out. I think they were floundering -- until the new CEO took over. Their approach appears to now be building an Expedia for local travel which includes ridesharing, JUMP bikes and Getaround. These side projects (self-driving, logistics, etc) I believe are the holdovers of the earlier era before they knew what they were doing. They always struck me as more of as a way of distracting everyone else until they did.
- Itaxpica 8y agoIt makes sense from a business perspective; their current core competency is mainly "blazing through VC money at an astounding rate". Uber's only shot at approaching any kind of profitability is from self-driving technology advancing to a point where they can cut out their biggest costs, namely, people.