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This is excellent! Uber has done NYC a great service by helping to dismantle the anti-competitive medallion system.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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make money using your own car as a taxi.
also has a lot of employees at 685 Market.
post a job at Uber FREE!
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