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Re:The Fall of Travis Kalanick by tootie on Thursday January 18, 2018 @11:52AM (#16178591)
3000 engineers seems like a ludicrous number for a taxi company. I'd expect the new CEO to start shrinking to focus on core business.
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Re:The Fall of Travis Kalanick by adventured on Thursday January 18, 2018 @12:48PM (#16179361)
Uber is marching toward $10 billion in annual sales. That's the size of Salesforce.com, which has 25,000 full-time employees.

3,000 engineers is not particularly out of line. It's certainly not ludicrous. It's a very large, global business, that is likely to get a lot bigger yet.

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Re:The Fall of Travis Kalanick by tootie on Thursday January 18, 2018 @02:11PM (#16180306)
Salesforce is a software company. Uber is a taxi company. I understand why they have thousands of taxi drivers.
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Re:The Fall of Travis Kalanick by raiyu on Thursday January 18, 2018 @12:54PM (#16179440)
Yes but I believe that figure is revenue before paying their drivers, so it would be 30% of that, or $3B.

Still nothing to scoff at.

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Re:The Fall of Travis Kalanick by uberemployee on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:25PM (#16179790)
The articles I’ve read state that $10B is Uber’s revenue not gross bookings.
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