Uber Lays Off 400

Re:Uber Lays Off 400 by mrnobody_67 on Monday July 29, 2019 @07:07PM (#20560426)

40% of all invested VC dollars go to Facebook and Google in the form of customer acquisition costs

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Re:Uber Lays Off 400 by cm2012 on Monday July 29, 2019 @11:20PM (#20561868)

90% of all new ad spend goes to either FB or Google because they actually work for acquiring customers at scale. Every other ad provider squeezes into the last 10%.

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Re:Uber Lays Off 400 by dalbasal on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @06:17AM (#20563467)

Not sure this is true anymore. The market is so big, those two can't cover it all.

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Re:Uber Lays Off 400 by pandapower2 on Monday July 29, 2019 @10:09PM (#20561505)

Curious what percentage goes to AWS...

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Re:Uber Lays Off 400 by bloemy on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @04:50AM (#20563158)

If you look at Uber/Lyft, quite a lot...

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Re:Uber Lays Off 400 by scarface74 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @12:05AM (#20562059)

This is no different than what happened with Yahoo and AOL before the dot com bust.

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Re:Uber Lays Off 400 by cm2012 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @12:46AM (#20562193)

Most modern ad spend is tracked to ROI. Yahoo and AOL was not.

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Re:Uber Lays Off 400 by dalbasal on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @06:18AM (#20563472)

tracked to does not necessarily imply "limited by."

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Re:Uber Lays Off 400 by bmiller2 on Monday July 29, 2019 @08:47PM (#20561068)

Source?

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