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Everyone is assuming customers are price sensitive, it could be that the losses are designed to achieve monopolies and drive out competition while establishing
by digitaltrees 8y ago
Everyone is assuming customers are price sensitive, it could be that the losses are designed to achieve monopolies and drive out competition while establishing a large two sided network and once achieved they use monopoly pricing power to extract value from price insensitive customers. It’s a reasonable thesis based on history.
I just personally thing this class of company will never achieve positive unit economics because people are price sensitive, and the service is a commodity with no meaningful network effect
- b_tterc_p 8y agoI’m pretty sure price sensitivity is already well studied and proven in this case given all of the surge pricing they already experiment with
- digitaltrees 8y agoI agree, that's why, despite understanding the investment thesis, as I point out in my last sentence, I am skeptical.