I don't understand it, either, but somehow they blew through $740 million on this last year. It seems ridiculous and only underscores my argument that they aren

I don't understand it, either, but somehow they blew through $740 million on this last year. It seems ridiculous and only underscores my argument that they aren't really a tech company. If I pitched needing $740 million to create a taxi dispatch app, I'd be laughed out of the room. Uber survives on a never-ending series of fantasies: they'll "disrupt" travel. They'll disrupt logistics. They'll have self-driving cars. They'll have flying taxis! No, they won't do any of these things. But what will happen (and already has) is that the founders and their friends will become obscenely wealthy while drivers have to sleep in their cars.