> It provided an efficient solution to a niche problem — rich techies needed a ride home after a night on the town and couldn’t get one Wtf? Uber is better tha

> It provided an efficient solution to a niche problem — rich techies needed a ride home after a night on the town and couldn’t get one Wtf? Uber is better than a taxi in every way but price. It certainly isn't limited to just rich techies at night. I wonder if he has ever even tried calling a taxi in SF or the valley. In SF, half the time, it will never show up. It just picks up someone else on the way there. In the valley, half the companies you call up refuse you saying they have no one in that town right now. With Uber you get a ride immediately and can watch it come to you on the screen and down rate any driver that ditches you for an easier fare.