Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares

Re:Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares by watwut on Thursday November 30, 2017 @06:04PM (#15820470)

They could be food if they would be willing to invest money and refine refine refine. They are not. So, even if they would buy from Uber it would be for cheap.

Plus any other startup or company can build such app to compete.

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Re:Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares by ProAm on Thursday November 30, 2017 @06:21PM (#15820580)

Im not sure what you mean by 'They could be food'?

Any start up could build this, but most companies don't want to deal with an MVP and the bugs that come with it, or a startup that may or may not exist in 6 months, etc... Companies will over pay for enterprise grade software if it has a history of just working. This is why Uber has an advantage, software that has a track record of doing what it says it does.

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Re:Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares by watwut on Friday December 01, 2017 @12:56AM (#15822225)

I meant "good", but either typo or autocorrelat got in the way.

I think that companies like taxis are cheap and while they are willing to pay, they are not willing to pay much.

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