> one could build an Uber/Lyft for under $1M and basically can operate with two or so devs fixing issues This is fundamentally untrue, although you hear it a l

> one could build an Uber/Lyft for under $1M and basically can operate with two or so devs fixing issues This is fundamentally untrue, although you hear it a lot here. I have to wonder whether the people who think this have actually worked on a system at the scale Uber operates at. Uber is an incredibly complicated system. The trick is it's presented to the user as a very simplistic one, so people overlook what's actually going on behind the scenes. Sure, like many well-funded tech companies with a large engineering staff there's a fair amount of fat you could probably cut away (and indeed, Uber have - they've done engineering layoffs in the past). But just to sustain the app in all the territories they currently operate in you're talking hundreds of engineers, not "two or so devs fixing issues". That's how large the problem surface area is.