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2015 Jan 1, 4:00am   81,071 views  84 comments

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name:Uber
street address:1455 Market St
SF zip:94103
home page:https://www.uber.com/
jobs page:https://www.uber.com/jobs
owner:
SF employees:
description:

make money using your own car as a taxi.

also has a lot of employees at 685 Market.

post a job at Uber FREE!

#sftech

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45   MisdemeanorRebel   2015 May 29, 6:15pm  

anonymous says

The legislation marked the second consecutive loss for Assemblyman Adrin Nazarian, who carried a similar bill last year. The Los Angeles Democrat has complained that contracted drivers get a pass when other kinds of paid drivers -- taxis, buses, truckers and commercial pilots -- all submit to random drug testing.

B-bb-but, it's sharing, it's not like it's a job that people do to make money. They only drive to share costs with Uber and Lyft.

46   wave9x   2015 May 29, 6:44pm  

Uber adds cars to our roads. It was estimated that Uber has added 15 THOUSAND cars to the steets of SF. A driver needs to drop someone off, wait around, drive around, and drive to the next customer, and so on. A normal driver drives from point A to point B and parks. Uber and their ilk are INCREASING the strain on road infrastructure and emitting more carbon into our atmosphere. For these reasons, they need to be taxed to cover the associated costs. Maintaining roads and the air isn't free. Why should they hoard billions in profit while the public pays for the infrastructure and quality of life they destroy?

47   indigenous   2015 Jun 3, 4:39pm  

anonymous says

Uber still has to contend with:

I would not bet against them, as technology always wins. The taxi companies in the past had a monopoly and were overpriced because of that. Uber has crushed the monopoly that only benefited a handful, not the drivers.

I say bring Uber on and they will prevail, why you ask? glad you asked not so much about technology but because they have competitive advantage that is going to blow regular taxi companies into history.

48   zzyzzx   2015 Jun 4, 7:30am  

Uber and Lyft tanking NYC taxi medallion pricing:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/upshot/new-york-taxi-medallion-prices-fall-again.html
New York Taxi Medallion Prices Fall Again

The average price of an individual New York taxi medallion fell to $840,000 in November, down 20 percent from its peak of $1.05 million in June 2013.

Competition from car-service apps like Uber and Lyft has pushed down medallion prices nationally; Boston and Chicago medallions have also experienced price declines of around 20 percent in recent months, along with sharp declines in transaction volume.

49   Patrick   2015 Jun 4, 8:40am  

zzyzzx says

The average price of an individual New York taxi medallion fell to $840,000 in November, down 20 percent from its peak of $1.05 million in June 2013.

This is a very good thing! No stupid license to operate a cab should ever cost a million dollars. Those medallions are purely about preventing free market competition at the expense of the public. Uber is the cure.

50   zzyzzx   2015 Jun 4, 10:11am  

Yeah, it's too bad we can't short taxi medallions!

51   PockyClipsNow   2015 Jun 4, 10:23am  

It seems uber REMOVES cars from the road, not adds them.
If one uber does 20 rides in one day - then its one car driving 'all day' on the road.
If 20 riders take own car and no uber is used - then more distance is travelled because the in scenario above the uber driver can drop off faire#1 and make a pickup of #2 VERY CLOSE like next door to where he dropped off #1. So the total miles traveled is way less with uber.

Plus the parking issues are non existent. How much 'driving around looking for parking' is eliminated with uber? 100% of it if you use them. thats a lot of traffic.

52   PockyClipsNow   2015 Jun 4, 10:34am  

“It’s totally frozen,” Mohammad Kamran, a taxi medallion broker in Chicago, said of that city’s medallion market. “I have offers from people who want to sell their medallions for one-sixty, one-fifty, but there is no lending.”

Conditions are similar in Boston, which has had only a handful of medallion sales in recent months in the range of $500,000; prices there had peaked at $700,000.

“Nobody wants to buy now,” said Lew Snapper, a broker in New England who says he has not sold a medallion in over a year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/upshot/new-york-city-taxi-medallion-prices-keep-falling-now-down-about-25-percent.html?abt=0002&abg=0

Its really amazing how the smartphone is changing society.
uber,airbnb, tinder, grinder?ha, etc.
just for maps and finding directions alone that is huge. and the phones have only been around like since 07 right?
its really an outrage how the governments can charge 1m for a business license in NYC. That is really despicable of the democrats.
we should all be able to do whatever we want like open a tienda outside your front door and sell drugs, liqour, whores, whatever u wan i gots it man.
thats true capitalism (just like mexico has -they have real freedom down there)
go uber go!

53   zzyzzx   2015 Jun 4, 11:11am  

PockyClipsNow says

Its really amazing how the smartphone is changing society.

uber,airbnb, tinder, grinder?ha, etc.

I wonder if it's worth getting a smartphone just for tinder?

54   zzyzzx   2015 Jun 4, 11:11am  

PockyClipsNow says

“It’s totally frozen,” Mohammad Kamran, a taxi medallion broker in Chicago, said of that city’s medallion market. “I have offers from people who want to sell their medallions for one-sixty, one-fifty, but there is no lending.”

That means that the medallions are now worthless.

55   HydroCabron   2015 Jun 4, 11:36am  

indigenous says

I would not bet against them, as technology always wins.

VHS beat Betamax.

MP3 is inferior to FLAC or CD, which is in turn inferior to DAT.

Plasma television is now extinct, with inferior LED and LCD products filling the market as we wait for OLED technology to become cost-effective, and it may not survive either.

56   indigenous   2015 Jun 4, 1:21pm  

HydroCabron says

VHS beat Betamax.

MP3 is inferior to FLAC or CD, which is in turn inferior to DAT.

Plasma television is now extinct, with inferior LED and LCD products filling the market as we wait for OLED technology to become cost-effective, and it may not survive either.

Yup and VHS beat the home film projector, and LED beat the Zenith, and MP3 beat 8 track. Technology always wins...

57   Patrick   2015 Jun 18, 10:04am  

It seems that the ruling applies to just a single driver:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/17/so-about-that-uber-ruling/

58   MisdemeanorRebel   2015 Jun 18, 12:30pm  

I'll believe the US is committed to true property rights when it allows people to sell beverages, fruits, and snacks out of their garage and put a few tables and chairs out on the driveway. When it allows rural property owners to build reasonably sized packing and packaging plants freely. There's no reason why a 1000 acre farm can't have a 2000 sq ft cannery for niche products onsite that employs 2-10 people seasonally. Surprisingly, a lot of rural areas heavily restrict even the most basic of food prep outside narrow zones, which just so happen to be owned by one or two families.

59   Patrick   2015 Jun 18, 12:34pm  

thunderlips11 says

Surprisingly, a lot of rural areas heavily restrict even the most basic of food prep outside narrow zones, which just so happen to be owned by one or two families.

I think you found the problem right there. The law is used by some businesses to prevent competition by other businesses.

60   curious2   2015 Jun 18, 4:01pm  

Congratulations to the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition on a unanimous SFMTA vote after overcoming allegedly deceptive last-minute opposition from Uber.

61   indigenous   2015 Jun 18, 6:37pm  


I think you found the problem right there. The law is used by some businesses to prevent competition by other businesses.

Contrary to popular meme, monopoly by definition is created by government.

62   EBGuy   2015 Jun 18, 7:02pm  

Well, that's one way to combat Uber -- transit mall! Whodathunkit? Thanks for the link curious2.

63   Patrick   2015 Jun 29, 8:26pm  

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/29/uber-france-leaders-arrested-for-running-illegal-taxi-company/

Uber France CEO Thibaud Simphal and Uber Europe GM Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty were both taken into custody today in Paris. The AFP first broke the news. The police started investigating Uber in November 2014 and raided its office in Paris in March 2015.

The two executives were charged with two different allegations. First, according to them, Uber is running illegal taxi operations. Uber has been struggling with this charge in many countries, starting with the U.S. In 2010, the company had to change its original name from UberCab to Uber as taxi companies didn’t want to create any confusion.

Second, the police said that Uber France is concealing digital documents. It’s hard to tell what the police was looking for when they raided the French office in March. But apparently, some documents are missing and slowing down the investigation.

Their actual crime is providing a better, cheaper service at the expense of entrenched interests who have great lobbying power.

64   MisdemeanorRebel   2015 Jul 29, 10:14pm  

Call it Crazy says

“If a potential passenger opened up the app and saw no cars around, she might take another cab service. But if she saw a cluster of cars seemingly milling around on the same street, she’s more likely to request a ride,” wrote Mr Rosenblat, whose research – funded by Microsoft – is published on Vice magazine’s Motherboard blog.

“What the passenger app shows can be deceptive,” writes Mr Rosenblat, who found that Uber drivers “across multiple forums discuss the fake cars they see on their own residential streets”.

Tee hee!

Uber is just the 21st Century of 19th Century Companies. No factory costs, exploit the hell out of seamstresses, pay jack shit.

We tried "Giging" before, it was called "Piecework" and it blew chunks.

65   resistance   2015 Aug 12, 11:31am  

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/taxi-owners-resisting-uber-risk-mimicking-the-decline-of-another-ny-club-023547392.html

The club has a strictly limited membership, granting to those admitted the right to handle lucrative traffic flow. Though members must adhere to certain explicit obligations, the arrangement nurtures a thriving, protected industry until new technology threatens the cozy collective and brings tough competition through greater customer choice.

66   MMR   2016 Jun 1, 8:49pm  

anonymous says

Uber said on Wednesday that it had raised $3.5 billion from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund

Hadn't really used lyft until now, but that might be the impetus I need to start using lyft more. Provided, that I can actually consistently get a ride

67   anotheraccount   2016 Jun 1, 9:00pm  

MMR says

Hadn't really used lyft until now, but that might be the impetus I need to start using lyft more

Lyft is fine. Eventually Uber, Lyft and whoever else will be like airlines with point systems. After my first Lyft ride I kept getting offers for 50% off rides.

68   Dan8267   2016 Aug 1, 8:00am  

Didi Chuxing, the dominant ride-hailing service in China, said it will acquire Uber Technologies Inc.’s operations in the country, ending a battle that cost the two companies billions as they competed for customers and drivers.

So capitalism only works when all competition is eliminated. Clearly competition is not promoted by capitalism and thus capitalism does not reap any benefits associated with competition. Capitalism is all about consolidating a market into one player, sometimes masquerading as competitors, but not really competing. Competition eliminates profits by driving down prices. Competition is clearly the enemy of capitalism, and capitalists will do anything including establishing territories to eliminate competition.

This sounds a lot like the cable companies, doesn't it? And yet, clearly government plays absolutely no part in establishing these territories for Uber and Didi. This is a clear and unequivocal example of pure capitalism, free from any government interference, establishing monopolies. OMFG, the blasphemy! How dare real world examples contradict the dogma of the religion of capitalism as if economic theory were subject to observational confirmation?

Science and religion are mutually exclusive. This is true everywhere including economics.

69   mell   2016 Aug 1, 8:30am  

Dan8267 says

Competition eliminates profits by driving down prices. Competition is clearly the enemy of capitalism, and capitalists will do anything including establishing territories to eliminate competition.

If the goods/services are easy to manufacture/provide, competition will ensure that you stay on top with your goods/services and you cannot monopolize in that case. There are exceptions like the the cable companies you mentioned, that's why we have some anti-trust laws, but even cable companies don't have true monopolies anymore, at least not in cities where many buildings have their own dedicated Tx lines. Also, on a positive note, while the battle between those two left one as a loser to be acquired, they invested heavily to compete against each other, disregarding profits for now, which is good for the labor market and goes against the narrative that they always try to maximize their profits. Especially in the startu-p phase, but even later on, case in point AMZN. There is no reason another rideshare services could emerge in China at some point to provide competition to Didi, it's nothing like the medaillon system for cabs which is/was truly a government protected monopoly.
Btw. the problem you're talking about is that the rule of law does not apply to the large players, this interview partially also talks about the cable/dsl monopolies:
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231472

70   Dan8267   2016 Aug 1, 11:09am  

mell says

If the goods/services are easy to manufacture/provide, competition will ensure that you stay on top with your goods/services and you cannot monopolize in that case

And how has that theory worked in the case of Uber and Didi?

71   zzyzzx   2016 Oct 13, 7:04am  

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/uber-lyft-demolishing-york-city-200900395.html

Uber and Lyft are demolishing New York City taxi drivers

Early this month, a medallion — basically the right to operate a yellow cab in New York — was listed for $250,000 on nycitycab.com.

That's a stark contrast from 2014, when the value of a medallion was listed around $1.3 million.

Medallions are tightly regulated, and you cannot operate a taxi in New York without one. They're losing value with the cab business taking a hit amid the rise of rideshare apps like Uber and Lyft.

Notably, although taxis are still beating Uber and Lyft in New York City, the share of trips shrank to 65% in April 2016 from 84% in April 2015, according to charts shared by Morgan Stanley analysts in July.

Again, although the number of trips per day for NYC taxis is far greater than the number of trips per day by Uber and/or Lyft, the figure for cabs has dropped by about 9%, while the rate for Uber and Lyft has surged.

#uber #nyc

72   Patrick   2016 Oct 13, 7:20am  

This is excellent! Uber has done NYC a great service by helping to dismantle the anti-competitive medallion system.

73   zzyzzx   2016 Nov 6, 6:43pm  

Tonight's Family Guy Peter becomes an Uber driver.

74   Patrick   2017 Feb 21, 9:27am  

https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber

As most of you know, I left Uber in December and joined Stripe in January. I've gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about why I left and what my time at Uber was like. It's a strange, fascinating, and slightly horrifying story that deserves to be told while it is still fresh in my mind, so here we go.  I joined Uber as a site reliability engineer (SRE) back in November 2015, and it was a great time to join as an engineer. They were still wrangling microservices out of their monolithic API, and things...

75   zzyzzx   2017 Mar 9, 10:35am  

http://www.fox5ny.com/news/240269677-story

But Uber hasn't become one of the most highly valued private businesses in the world without financial trouble. While the company doesn't share its earnings publicly, Daus says Uber lost $2 billion last year and is not making money. He believes all of their eggs are in the autonomous vehicle basket.

76   Patrick   2017 May 5, 10:53am  

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-tech-crime-exclusive-idUSKBN1802U1

The U.S. Department of Justice has begun a criminal investigation into Uber Technologies Inc's use of a software tool that helped its drivers evade local transportation regulators, two sources familiar with the situation said.

Uber has acknowledged the software, known as "Greyball," helped it identify and circumvent government officials who were trying to clamp down on Uber in areas where its service had not yet been approved, such as Portland, Oregon.

The company prohibited the use of Greyball for this purpose shortly after the New York Times revealed its existence in March, saying the program was created to check ride requests to prevent fraud and safeguard drivers. The Times report triggered a barrage of negative publicity for the company.

The criminal probe could become a significant problem facing the company that is already struggling with an array of recent business and legal issues.

77   MisdemeanorRebel   2017 May 5, 11:13am  

rando says

https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber

Company is toast with this kind of organization.

The Greyball thing is just another part of the puzzle. Please oh please have the IPO so I can buy puts.

78   CBOEtrader   2017 May 5, 12:07pm  

Lashkar_i_Trumpi says

rando says

https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber

Company is toast with this kind of organization.

The Greyball thing is just another part of the puzzle. Please oh please have the IPO so I can buy puts.

Yeah too much competition.

Also, their biggest competitive advantage is (or was rather) their database of millions of users' credit card info. Therefore, until a year ago they could spin off new business plans much more quickly than a startup that needs to convince users to trust them w their wallet. HOWEVER, FB's new messenger chatbot push will destroy UBER. FB users can link paypal or their bank account to FB. A startup business plan may now piggy-back and create a FB messenger app which automatically connects to a user's payment, geolocation, as well as personal information. Uber's largest competitive advantage is gone.

79   Patrick   2017 May 5, 12:26pm  

CBOEtrader says

FB users can link paypal or their bank account to FB. A startup business plan may now piggy-back and create a FB messenger app which automatically connects to a user's payment, geolocation, as well as personal information.

FB having my financial info and location is a horrifying idea. Much worse than Uber somehow.

80   anonymous   2017 Jun 15, 7:46pm  

I had a female Goober driver on Late Saturday night ~5am. She was nuts. Blew through a red light going 45 in a 25

Hurry up self driving cars

81   RWSGFY   2017 Jun 16, 2:40pm  

Somebody posing as Uber tried to charge my CC for hundreds of dollars for several bogus "rides". What's interesting is that there was two legitimate short rides in Uber and the card is the one I paid with.

82   Patrick   2017 Jun 21, 3:09am  

anonymous says

fundamental problems with its male-dominated culture

What fat ugly blue-haired feminist crap is this?

Of course it's male-dominated. Men create almost everything useful in the world, all the time.

Companies that are not male-dominated fail to accomplish anything.

83   Dan8267   2017 Jun 21, 8:37am  

rando says

Companies that are not male-dominated fail to accomplish anything.

That's not true.

84   zzyzzx   2018 Mar 22, 9:39am  

https://nypost.com/2018/03/21/cabbie-blamed-uber-lyft-for-financial-woes-before-hanging-himself/
Cabbie blamed Uber, Lyft for financial woes before hanging himself

A yellow-cab driver hanged himself because of financial ruin that he blamed on ride-hail apps such as Uber and Lyft — the fourth such suicide in the last four months, authorities said Wednesday.

Nicanor Ochisor, 65, was found in the garage of his Maspeth, Queens, home by his adult son on Friday, according to Richard Lipsky of the Taxi Medallion Owners and Drivers Association.

Ochisor is the first medallion owner to end his life over the flagging industry, he said.

Ochisor backed his home mortgage on his medallion, and planned to use the license to finance his retirement — but his dreams faded as the value of medallions plummeted from $1 million to around $180,000 over the last five years.

Ochisor made no secret he planned to end his life, according to friends.

“He said, ‘I’m old, I’m tired, and I’m not going to make it,’ ” fellow driver Nino Hervias, 59, recalled from a conversation with Ochisor last week.

“He talked to me about it [suicide] and said that’s the way he’s going to end,” friend and fellow medallion owner Dan Nitescu, 65, told The Post. “I told him to wait and it will get better.”

Ochisor got his medallion in 1989, according to the Taxi and Limousine Commission.

He drove nightly, and his wife took fares during the day, Nitescu said.

“They were working like that for about 25 years to raise family and save for college,” the grieving friend said.

But Ochisor had struggled for fares lately, Hervias said.

“He was only making $200 a day working 10 to 12 hours,” he said, adding that’s barely enough to cover overhead. “He was devastated.”

Ochisor planned to finance his retirement by leasing the medallion out for $3,000 a month — a reasonable rate five years ago, but now he’d be lucky to get $1,400 a month, Nitescu said.

To make matters worse, the couple’s home was about to go into foreclosure and they would have been on the hook if Ochisor’s devalued medallion didn’t cover the debt, according to Lipsky.

“It used to be that you knew that even if you weren’t making it on a day-to-day basis, the equity in your medallion was going up,” Hervias said. “Now we have no backup. The psychological effect is terrible.”

Ochisor is the fourth TLC driver to commit suicide in as many months.

Broke livery driver Douglas Schifter killed himself with a shotgun outside the gates of City Hall on Feb. 5.

“I don’t know how else to try to make a difference other than a public display of a most private affair,” the driver wrote in a suicide note posted to Facebook.

Livery driver Danilo Castillo penned a lengthy suicide note lamenting the “disastrous” state of the industry on the back of a TLC summons before leaping to his death out of his Manhattan apartment window on Dec. 20.

A fourth TLC driver killed himself in February, according to the New York Taxi Workers Alliance. His name was not released.

Bronx Councilman Reuben Diaz Sr. has proposed a bill aimed at leveling the playing field in the taxi industry by charging app-based companies the same fees livery firms and drivers pay and limiting the number of vehicles that can operate.

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