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I don't think Uber was a great ROI for investors though. It lost almost all the money they gave it in return for a business with entirely average profit margins

I don't think Uber was a great ROI for investors though. It lost almost all the money they gave it in return for a business with entirely average profit margins (average across all industries, far lower than average for a SaaS app).

hollerith 4mo ago
Since Uber's never paid dividends, ROI is easy to calculate. At the end of its first day of trading (in May 2019), Uber's price was $41.57 per share, and it is currently $72–73 per share for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of roughly 8.2% per year. In comparison, the BVP Nasdaq Emerging Cloud Index earned roughly 22–25% CAGR over the same time interval. So (as usual) Mike Hearn is correct.