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by misun78 9y ago
Forgot to mention I’m an Uber employee.
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by misun78 9y ago
Significantly better with Dara who understands the needs for a peacetime ceo. Happy to field any specific questions.
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by misun78 9y ago
> The picture of taxi owners as powerful doesn't at all match what I know. It's a shibboleth promoted by Uber. You should read this then - https://priceonomics.com/post/47636506327/the-tyranny-of-the..
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by misun78 9y ago
Just because Lyft entered some cities before Uber did does not mean they eventually paved the path for legalization. Most of the battles that occurred once local governments realized the magnitude of ridesharing were led by Uber.
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by misun78 9y ago
As an Uber employee who has seen the company fight one battle over another for the last 4 years, he absolutely deserves most of the credit (and conversely all the blame from the fallouts). Uber formulated the following approach to get rides
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by misun78 9y ago
Thank you for providing a balanced view that’s so often missing on anything Uber related on HN. There is no denying that Travis threw ethics out of the window and took his paranoia way too far and never matured into a peacetime CEO. But eve
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by misun78 9y ago
[Disclaimer: Uber employee] Unfortunately for your argument, if there is one thing to deduce from Uber's year of hell, it's that Uber's not going anywhere. I could list around 50 groundbreaking events this year, each of which
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by misun78 9y ago
If it helps, Uber is under several investigations for the sins of the past. To some extent, users voting with their dollars has also hurt Uber. Which brings to my last point that the most damaging aspect about all of this is that there is n
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by misun78 9y ago
If you have any desire to buy a house without a crushing commute in the bay area, FANGs are the only other alternative. At this point, almost all the enablers of this culture -- up to the CEO -- have been wiped out of the company. Dara ha
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by misun78 9y ago
It's not unreasonable for companies to avoid litigation by settling. Given that the timeframe of this coincides with Uber's darkest periods, it may have been operating out of a position of weakness.
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by misun78 9y ago
As an Uber employee, I respectfully disagree. I'd rather work on an improved and changed Uber than work on forcing ads and propaganda down people's throats.
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by misun78 9y ago
Point still stands. When you have x million users on some platform and these users are a normal representation of the populace, an equal proportion of bad actors (with no prior records of such) will end up on that platform.
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by misun78 9y ago
Repeated incidents of rape? Firstly, no Uber employee was actually involved in the rape. This case was about a rogue Uber driver. When Uber starts operating at the scale it currently does, all sorts of bad actors end up as Uber drivers. Of
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by misun78 9y ago
I will also directly address this comment as an Uber engineer without any deep vested commitment to Uber i.e. not an early employee who can't leave for the FANGs of the world for the same incentives. Your viewpoint is incredibly naive
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by misun78 9y ago
You're not weird and this is precisely why Uber is still the market leader. But there is a cohort, in some specific areas where Lyft's network is on par with Uber's such that price, and more specifically targeted discounts, d
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by misun78 9y ago
Drivers drive for the product that provides the most income. Outside of the realms of SF (and even within), there are only two types of drivers: 1. Ones who drive for both - this cohort used to prefer Lyft due to tips but the scales have ti
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by misun78 9y ago
Increased competition. Lyft is burning through money at an unprecedented rate to catch up with Uber given that they smell blood this year and investors ala Google are willing to subsidize the burn. At some point, this has to stop but 2017 d
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by misun78 9y ago
"controlled expenditures through higher pricing and "friendlier" demeanor" - Assuming this refers to Lyft, Lyft's expenses compared dollar to dollar are on-par if not worse than Ubers - https://techcrunch
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by misun78 9y ago
Uber employee chiming in - while I entirely sympathize with HN's frustrations around our ethics and can't really justify our actions around this data breach, it is very much worth noting that Lyft would not exist were it not for U