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Re:Lyft Announces Q1 Earnings by nerdponx on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @08:15PM (#19854700)
How come Uber is profitable in these areas and Lyft isn't? Market share?
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Re:Lyft Announces Q1 Earnings by airstrike on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @09:35PM (#19855155)
Precisely. It's all about scale
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Re:Lyft Announces Q1 Earnings by wbl on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @09:45PM (#19855206)
Scale of what? Most of their costs are per-unit.
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Re:Lyft Announces Q1 Earnings by brokensegue on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @10:17PM (#19855357)
SWEs don't get paid on a per-ride basis.
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Re:Lyft Announces Q1 Earnings by aetherson on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @11:51PM (#19855733)
Uber doesn't count their R&D costs in their (dodgy and unquantified) claims to be profitable in this or that market.
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