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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by the_watcher on Monday October 03, 2016 @01:50PM (#12629657)
Uber initially (and still does) rely Google Maps for a lot, but they have an internal team working on their own mapping, and have spent a lot of money acquiring map-related tech.
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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by philjohn on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @05:11AM (#12634223)
Now. But they initially bootstrapped it with Google Maps, which was sensible to do for their initial MVP, which is all an "I could do that in a weekend" project is.
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