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> According to an email Uber sent to drivers in May that was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, the company offers $250 for referring a new driver to its serv
by joelrunyon 12y ago
> According to an email Uber sent to drivers in May that was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, the company offers $250 for referring a new driver to its service; $500 for referring a Lyft driver; and $1,000 for signing up a Lyft "mentor," an experienced Lyft contractor who helps train new drivers.
This sounds scarily like MLM to me. Anyone else?
- smeyer 12y agoNot really. It just sounds like a referral bonus. They're shipping a real service and offering bonuses to get other employees. The main way to make money as an uber driver seems to still be driving, not referring other drivers. I'm a software engineer and I got well over $1,000 for referring a friend to my company, but I don't think that makes us an MLM scheme.
- njohnw 12y agoThis is Uber creating incentives aimed at growing its base of drivers while also weakening the Lyft driver network.
- nlh 12y agoNo - this is just referral fees (which are normal) and is missing the "ML" in MLM. That would look something like "$250 for new drivers, and $50 for each driver that your referrals refer". THAT would be MLM, literally.