I mean if you really weren't profitable, and you wanted to try to be, why not freeze feature development and run the company with ~500 employees, <100 engineers

I mean if you really weren't profitable, and you wanted to try to be, why not freeze feature development and run the company with ~500 employees, <100 engineers? I learned Uber takes as much as a 50% cut of taxi rides. The margin for profit is really there if you see the company's primary goal as "make a taxi marketplace, and leave it be" like craigslist does.