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It must be hard for Travis to manage all this growth. I always wondered what the next Google was and I never expected it would be a taxi ride sharing company.
by free2rhyme214 12y ago
It must be hard for Travis to manage all this growth. I always wondered what the next Google was and I never expected it would be a taxi ride sharing company.
- nostrademons 12y agoUber seems a lot more like the next Netscape. Super-fast growth, media darling, natural monopoly, took lots of capital, ultra-hyped valuation, arrogant, and threatening to a lot of powerful people. Google, if you remember its growth period, basically came out of nowhere. It was beloved by users and adoption grew rapidly, but they didn't start getting serious publicity (nor did they seek it) until around 2004. They, AFAICT, took only one round of funding, $25M in 2000, before attaining profitability sometime in 2002. And they worked very hard to seem non-threatening until they were big enough to actually be a threat: remember "we do only one thing and one thing well - Search", "Don't be evil", their cordial relationship with Apple, the explicit decision not to challenge Microsoft, and how they only took advantage of companies that were going out of business anyway?