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What about ÜBER?

• marknutter 12y ago
  What has Uber done?
  • k-mcgrady 12y ago
    Very questionable tactics when fighting competition, particularly Lyft. Google it (I don't want to misrepresent it from memory), it's been on HN quite a few times.
  • Fard 12y ago
    This for example. http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/26/6067663/this-is-ubers-playbook-for-sabotaging-lyft http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/26/6067663/this-is-ubers-play...
    • viscanti 12y ago
      Except that was actually good. http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/virtues-ubers-operation-slog http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/virtues-ubers-ope...
  • gamblor956 12y ago
    And this: http://avc.com/2014/11/messing-with-a-competitors-fundraising/ http://avc.com/2014/11/messing-with-a-competitors-fundraisin... Not only unethical, but quite possibly a tortious interference with contract. Uber is turning out to be even worse than the worst taxi companies.
• krschultz 12y ago
  I'm definitely not a fan of Uber, but even I wouldn't put them in the same league as Groupon. Uber falls in the 'not great for their employees, but generally useful for society' category, which is really the same bucket as Amazon. Groupon falls in the 'disingenuous startup that enriched early investors on pumped up numbers and dumped it all on society later', with an extra kicker of screwing a bunch of small businesses along the way.
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