I don't know if this is still true, but a few years ago Uber was losing money on every trip [1]. They also, five years ago, had 6000 employees, of which 2000 we

I don't know if this is still true, but a few years ago Uber was losing money on every trip [1]. They also, five years ago, had 6000 employees, of which 2000 were engineers [2]. Apologies for the outdated links, there's probably more precise data out there. [1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/ubers-plan-to-lose-money-on-each-ride-make-it-up-in-volume.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/ubers-plan-to-lose-m... [2] http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/10/12/lessons-learned-from-scaling-uber-to-2000-engineers-1000-ser.html#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20Uber%20is%20now,in%20over%208000%20git%20repositories http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/10/12/lessons-learned-f....