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I see tremendous upside getting into either $LYFT below $20B or $UBER at $120B, which recently announced operational air taxi service by 2023.

spiderPig 8y ago
I would rather wait for the Magic carpet service due by 2025.
- sigfubar 8y ago
  And the home teleportation portal announced for 2027. I just hope it doesn't have too many privacy implications.
  - ghaff 8y ago
    See Larry Niven for SF speculation around the implication of transfer booths.
  - sunsetMurk 8y ago
    Personally, I'm more worried about the potential for a foreign object(eg. a fly) being present in the booth and becoming merged with myself as part of the teleportation process. scary stuff!
  - kochikame 8y ago
    Big Magic Carpet will shut the whole teleportation industry down before it even gets going
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whttheuuu 8y ago
Ride hailing is a commodity.
- rbowlby83 8y ago
  I'm not sure it's a commodity. Riders are not necessarily willing to wait indefinitely for the driver. Economies of scale is a factor in ride hailing. Perhaps a ride hailing company with fewer drivers can out perform a larger peer through predictive analysis, putting drivers in the right areas ahead of time. That likely amounts to a neat trick when you think about the scale of Uber and Lyft. Uber has had to close down operations in several countries as well as several cities here in U.S.. Each time losing investors hard earned dollars. Lyft is most definitely, as others mentioned, in the slipstream; benefiting from Ubers successes and failures. Lyft is a brand people respect and love and Uber not so much; at least not here in the U.S. Lyft also has partnered with Google's Waymo. I think that partnership is limited to testing autonomous ride share but Google is also an investor in Lyft. A future acquisition or partnership doesn't seem out of the question. I see room for a few players to own the market and if I were an investor I'd go with Lyft.
a13n 8y ago
I see tremendous upside potential in one of those investments :P

spiderPig 8y ago

I would rather wait for the Magic carpet service due by 2025.

sigfubar 8y ago
And the home teleportation portal announced for 2027. I just hope it doesn't have too many privacy implications.
- ghaff 8y ago
  See Larry Niven for SF speculation around the implication of transfer booths.
- sunsetMurk 8y ago
  Personally, I'm more worried about the potential for a foreign object(eg. a fly) being present in the booth and becoming merged with myself as part of the teleportation process. scary stuff!
- kochikame 8y ago
  Big Magic Carpet will shut the whole teleportation industry down before it even gets going
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whttheuuu 8y ago

Ride hailing is a commodity.

rbowlby83 8y ago
I'm not sure it's a commodity. Riders are not necessarily willing to wait indefinitely for the driver. Economies of scale is a factor in ride hailing. Perhaps a ride hailing company with fewer drivers can out perform a larger peer through predictive analysis, putting drivers in the right areas ahead of time. That likely amounts to a neat trick when you think about the scale of Uber and Lyft. Uber has had to close down operations in several countries as well as several cities here in U.S.. Each time losing investors hard earned dollars. Lyft is most definitely, as others mentioned, in the slipstream; benefiting from Ubers successes and failures. Lyft is a brand people respect and love and Uber not so much; at least not here in the U.S. Lyft also has partnered with Google's Waymo. I think that partnership is limited to testing autonomous ride share but Google is also an investor in Lyft. A future acquisition or partnership doesn't seem out of the question. I see room for a few players to own the market and if I were an investor I'd go with Lyft.

a13n 8y ago

I see tremendous upside potential in one of those investments :P