Uber has between 3 and 4 million drivers compared to 29000 employees. If you follow the HN and Blind comment threads there is substantial belief that they coul

Uber has between 3 and 4 million drivers compared to 29000 employees. If you follow the HN and Blind comment threads there is substantial belief that they could survive with half to 1/4th that number. Even assuming that only 10% of Uber drivers care about advancement and learn to code that would create 300k new software engineers, far more than Uber could ever hope to employee. In fact this would be more software engineers than the total number of engineers employed by the top 5 tech companies by market cap.