Re:Uber’s board wants Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to be it...
by adameast9000 on Monday August 28, 2017 @10:20AM
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I respectfully disagree. I think that Uber has done a great job of hooking a large volume of consumers on their core product, and now there is a huge opportunity to leverage that base to create income streams all over the travel space. Considering their trouble with reaching profitability, I think this makes too much sense to avoid doing it due to concerns of losing focus on the core product. Uber is a not a startup anymore!
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Re:Uber’s board wants Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to be it...
by beager on Monday August 28, 2017 @11:02AM
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It also creates large swaths of potentially lucrative revenue opportunities based on the size of the Uber user base, without the quantifiability of those swaths that you would see in core-product market expansion, or core-product optimization.
The cynic in me says that you can juice Uber with a bunch of these tie-ins, box out competitors by creating these partnerships, and IPO at a valuation based on aspirational performance of these partnerships that would make most people happy.
Re:Uber’s board wants Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to be it...
by dalbasal on Monday August 28, 2017 @12:15PM
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I can certainly see our two positions sitting on the table with a strong, conventional business case for yours. It might even be right.
(btw, thanks for the friendly disagreement. Much appreciated)