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It doesn't get the wealthy especially rich either, looking at the losses. Who gets rich on Uber and similar apps are all the programmers that visit this websit
by shp0ngle 3y ago
It doesn't get the wealthy especially rich either, looking at the losses.
Who gets rich on Uber and similar apps are all the programmers that visit this website, we make good money on all those schemes. We get paid really well. We are who really gets the best deal in all this.
(Now I need to hide away before the flying shoes hit me.)
- mym1990 3y agoThe wealthy got rich at the IPO stage at the expense of the public, much like most tech IPOs.
- spaceman_2020 3y agoas an end user, I got a pretty good deal for quite a while. I'm always surprised that VCs assume that customers are morons and will keep buying the same product even when its not a good deal anymore. Uber's terms of the deal changed, so I don't buy the product anymore. Simple as.
- bombcar 3y agoThe goal is to kill all the alternatives so you have no choice. Uber wanted to kill all taxis everywhere, then they'd have a monopoly.
- SoftTalker 3y agoUber wanted to attack all the things that were bad about legacy taxi service. They did, and it was better for many people. But they were foolish if they thought taxi services would not respond and competitors would not emerge. Ultimately they wanted their cars to be self-driving. They don't want to pay drivers at all. But there was and is no proof that it is possible in the time frame of their runway.