Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles
by JumpCrisscross on Thursday March 02, 2017 @01:09AM
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> Why is either business the cat's meow?
I have, for years, commented on Uber's savvy relative to Airbnb [1]. This was partly due to Uber's retention of Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe [2]. Unfortunately, he left for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in January [3].
Uber's problems are, 80%, a PR scandal. #DeleteUber started when Uber seemed to interfere with a taxi strike at New York City's JFK airport [4]. Uber cancelled its surcharge at 7:36PM; the taxi union scheduled the strike, at 4:55PM, for between 6 and 7PM [5].
Biggest winner? Peter Thiel--numpties jumped to Lyft. Almost everyone else rallied against his competitor.
I have, for years, commented on Uber's savvy relative to Airbnb [1]. This was partly due to Uber's retention of Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe [2]. Unfortunately, he left for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in January [3].
Uber's problems are, 80%, a PR scandal. #DeleteUber started when Uber seemed to interfere with a taxi strike at New York City's JFK airport [4]. Uber cancelled its surcharge at 7:36PM; the taxi union scheduled the strike, at 4:55PM, for between 6 and 7PM [5].
Biggest winner? Peter Thiel--numpties jumped to Lyft. Almost everyone else rallied against his competitor.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6521376#6521700
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Plouffe
[3] http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/10/ubers-david-plouffe-to-join-c...
[4] http://www.businessinsider.com/delete-uber-hashtag-jfk-airpo...
[5] https://www.axios.com/uber-didnt-deserve-deleteuber-22258932...