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by viscanti 12y ago
Creating 50k jobs a month ( http://mashable.com/2014/09/08/uber-ceo-techcrunch-disrupt/ ), reducing transportation costs for millions and reducing DUIs. That strikes me as "not mean". But I guess
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by viscanti 12y ago
The article wasn't horrible. While it doesn't have any takeaways as far as next steps, it does introduce the idea that things actually are complicated. It's the start of a dialogue beyond just pointing at tech companies. It b
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by viscanti 12y ago
It takes context to know that 1) It was an off the record event and 2) that previous attack pieces were levied at his company and a reporter baited him into giving quotes that would sound incendiary without any of the context (i.e. answerin
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by viscanti 12y ago
Given the article, it sounds like he was baited into giving a sound bite that could be taken out of context, by a reporter at an off the record dinner. Given the full context, it sounds like they were discussing how a company COULD deal wit
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by viscanti 12y ago
But this was from 2012, when Uber was a "fun" company. They were doing on-demand valentines and mariachi bands. It's in line with a small startup (which they were), and doesn't present any sensitive information.
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What Was Said at the Uber Dinner(huffingtonpost.com)
151 points by viscanti 12y ago|114 comments
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Uber hires former IBM privacy chief to investigate its policies(bizjournals.com)
2 points by viscanti 12y ago|0 comments
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by viscanti 12y ago
Where were the allegations of putting someone's family in harms way? The initial reports read like it was a hypothetical solution to show bias in tech journalism. SL happens to work at a blog who was funded by a competitor of Uber. Rea
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by viscanti 12y ago
The gap should close over time through better training and improved tooling, but there will always be some delta. Developers would still progress through that training at different rates.
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by viscanti 12y ago
Except that was actually good. http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/virtues-ubers-ope...
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by viscanti 12y ago
Those Directors/VPs/Founder were likely already pulling a decent salary (as execs in any industry do). They could likely afford an apartment in the city, so it should be a zero sum transaction for housing (12 houses might be purch
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Uber Sets Out to Raise More Than $1B in Funding, Sources Say(online.wsj.com)
1 points by viscanti 12y ago|0 comments
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by viscanti 12y ago
I don't get any new information about Uber from this, but it's interesting to see Lyft pursue it. It's also interesting to see what appears to be several of the top people from Lyft choose to go over to Uber. This doesn'
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by viscanti 12y ago
Sounds like a great company to work for. Everyone hopes that their employer logs in and reads their personal account on evernote and dropbox.
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Lyft's First Fatality: Passenger Dies in Crash(forbes.com)
3 points by viscanti 12y ago|0 comments
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by viscanti 12y ago
As apps start to bridge the digital-divide and have real-world impacts, a look at that impact is probably warranted.
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Lyft driver in California slams into tree, kills passenger(geekwire.com)
2 points by viscanti 12y ago|2 comments
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by viscanti 12y ago
They're almost three years behind Uber in thinking about "car choices other than taxi". It's tough to compete when you miss such an important detail.
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by viscanti 12y ago
Lyft has apparently engaged in the exact same competitive tactics. It's allegedly how they got the majority of their supply in NYC. Lyft has also apparently done twice as many cancellations of Uber requests as uber did from Lyft. Uber
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by viscanti 12y ago
At the end of the day both are businesses. One has apparently owned that from the beginning. The other pretended not to at the beginning so they could bootstrap their company. Now Lyft is large enough that the facade is over, and it's
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Lyft Drivers Are Burning Their Pink Mustaches(vice.com)
35 points by viscanti 12y ago|45 comments
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Lyft Plus changes upset some drivers(sfgate.com)
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Lyft Kills Their Lyft Plus Program, Drivers Stuck with SUVs They Don't Want(sfist.com)
6 points by viscanti 12y ago|3 comments
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by viscanti 12y ago
It's not noticeable in SF. Water is available 24 hours a day. If it wasn't for the news reports we'd never know.
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by viscanti 12y ago
What law and what is the purpose of said law?
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by viscanti 12y ago
http://fortune.com/2014/09/11/uber-vs-lyft-the-credit-cards-... It doesn't look like a lot of competition honestly. That probably paints Lyft in the best possible light too because it just takes into acc
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by viscanti 12y ago
Or maybe the strike is closer to what happened last year in SF, where a bunch of drivers who were banned from the uber system because of low quality scores protested for other reasons. Something doesn't add up with the strike anyway (t
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by viscanti 12y ago
http://fortune.com/2014/09/11/uber-vs-lyft-the-credit-cards-... I don't know. The numbers appear to disagree. That just shows a sample of their growth in the US, but according to reports the bulk of thei
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by viscanti 12y ago
This. Although I don't understand the argument from the driver's side. They're upset about sometimes getting trips from uberx (and apparently making more doing so), so they're going to a place that pays less per trip and
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by viscanti 12y ago
What's interesting here is that it completely disregards international numbers. So while it appears that Uber is dominating, their lead is likely much higher. They're in 40+ countries now while Lyft is still just in the US. A US o

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