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Re:Uber Co-Founder Travis Kalanick Said to Plan Sale of 29% ... by EliRivers on Friday January 05, 2018 @10:12AM (#16079034)
The rest of it was spent creating one of the most impactful companies that the world has ever seen.

Are you talking about Uber? More convenient, cheaper taxis? Sure, I like that as much as the next person, but it's hardly one of the most impactful companies in history.

Re:Uber Co-Founder Travis Kalanick Said to Plan Sale of 29% ... by djohnston on Friday January 05, 2018 @10:20AM (#16079084)
We’ve entered an unquantifiable mish-mash of superlatives but I’d reckon that uber, as a mainstream pioneer of the contemporary sharing economy, has had more of an impact than you’re willing to admit.
Re:Uber Co-Founder Travis Kalanick Said to Plan Sale of 29% ... by IanCal on Friday January 05, 2018 @10:36AM (#16079212)
Certainly excellent at marketing the idea that selling services to people should be called the "sharing economy".
Re:Uber Co-Founder Travis Kalanick Said to Plan Sale of 29% ... by InitialLastName on Friday January 05, 2018 @11:31AM (#16079582)
And that marketing it as "selling services" to someone is a great way to avoid a minimum wage for that service.
Re:Uber Co-Founder Travis Kalanick Said to Plan Sale of 29% ... by EliRivers on Friday January 05, 2018 @10:26AM (#16079129)
To compare it with the most impactful companies that the world has ever seen, I compare it to companies that did things like, for example, pioneer electricity distribution across the US (and other countries), or turn antibiotics from an exotic, expensive lab experiment into something that could be economically manufactured in quantity. They had top tier impact. By comparison, Uber is basically invisible.