> fire every engineer except the 15 or so it takes to maintain the rider and driver apps and a few services, with no new features, port everything over to commo

> fire every engineer except the 15 or so it takes to maintain the rider and driver apps and a few services, with no new features, port everything over to common cloud companies instead of their DC (shoutout to DCA, the ugly stepbrother of SJC), and just pivot to value extraction and just maintaining it as the simple taxi app it should be. Uber operates in multiple countries, each of which have very different rules. There's millions of rides happening in each of those places. It's difficult to keep everything running with just a few engineers.