Re:Uber Turns to Saudi Arabia for $3.5B Cash Infusion
by CPLX on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @06:41PM
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People say this a lot, so I am not picking on you, but I don't get this argument at all. Amazon does it, so does Lasership and Seamless and Fedex and WalMart and a million other variations. I don't see any real reason Uber is more adept at adjacent non-core market verticals than any other top tier entrant.
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Re:Uber Turns to Saudi Arabia for $3.5B Cash Infusion
by mikeash on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @06:46PM
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Don't forget Domino's. They and others in their business had this whole thing with drivers using their own cars for short notice transportation jobs decades ago.
Re:Uber Turns to Saudi Arabia for $3.5B Cash Infusion
by sjg007 on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @10:06PM
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It's like uber for pizza.
Re:Uber Turns to Saudi Arabia for $3.5B Cash Infusion
by adgulacti on Thursday June 02, 2016 @04:33AM
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more like uber is domino's for people
Re:Uber Turns to Saudi Arabia for $3.5B Cash Infusion
by codecamper on Thursday June 02, 2016 @10:07AM
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Maybe domino's could carry passengers one way. Order a pizza. Get a pizza & a passenger too!
Re:Uber Turns to Saudi Arabia for $3.5B Cash Infusion
by macspoofing on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @08:37PM
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That's a great point. To add to it, as Uber grows, it'll take on weight and inertia and become as rigid, bloated and inflexible as other successful Fortune 500 companies. They'll have departments, and department heads who want good quarterly numbers and will not want to rock the boat too much. They'll have shareholders who'll want a good return and not expensive moonshots. And I mean that all in a good way. There's nothing wrong with that. WalMart didn't miss out by not building a search engine 10 years ago. It's not what they know.