Why I don't believe in Uber's Success

Re:Why I don't believe in Uber's Success by mcguire on Thursday January 19, 2017 @01:40PM (#13438263)

Can you explain what Amazon's end game will be?

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Re:Why I don't believe in Uber's Success by DasIch on Thursday January 19, 2017 @04:31PM (#13439676)

Amazon's endgame is to become the retailer, the only one.

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Re:Why I don't believe in Uber's Success by ahuja_s on Thursday January 19, 2017 @02:52PM (#13438921)

It's customers are fucking g happy. What's the end game you're talking about? Have you invested into them? As a customer I LOVE them. As a student, I studied them in HBX.

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Re:Why I don't believe in Uber's Success by mcguire on Thursday January 19, 2017 @03:12PM (#13439092)

In 2015, Amazon made $596,000,000 on revenues of $107,006,000,000, or a profit margin of 0.6%. In 2012 and 2014, it lost money. How long should investors wait to see a real profit? Should they expect revenue growth to continue indefinitely?

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Re:Why I don't believe in Uber's Success by jrockway on Thursday January 19, 2017 @08:41PM (#13441123)

How much profit should they make?

If there was a machine where you could insert a 20 dollar bill and it spit out the 20 and an additional 12 cents, would you not use that machine?

How much would you pay to buy one?

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Re:Why I don't believe in Uber's Success by DontGiveTwoFlux on Friday January 20, 2017 @12:27AM (#13441886)

Except that if you buy the Berkshire Hathaway machine you'll put in $20 and get back a dollar.

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Re:Why I don't believe in Uber's Success by sk5t on Friday January 20, 2017 @07:57PM (#13448178)

I dunno, how much money would you keep in a savings account that yields 0.5% APR?

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