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Re:On-Demand Startups Are Hemorrhaging Tens of Billions a Year by digitaltrees on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @05:54PM (#19558963)
Everyone is assuming customers are price sensitive, it could be that the losses are designed to achieve monopolies and drive out competition while establishing a large two sided network and once achieved they use monopoly pricing power to extract value from price insensitive customers. It’s a reasonable thesis based on history.

I just personally thing this class of company will never achieve positive unit economics because people are price sensitive, and the service is a commodity with no meaningful network effect

Re:On-Demand Startups Are Hemorrhaging Tens of Billions a Year by b_tterc_p on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @06:32PM (#19559224)
I’m pretty sure price sensitivity is already well studied and proven in this case given all of the surge pricing they already experiment with
Re:On-Demand Startups Are Hemorrhaging Tens of Billions a Year by digitaltrees on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @11:08PM (#19560439)
I agree, that's why, despite understanding the investment thesis, as I point out in my last sentence, I am skeptical.