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Re:Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires by sowbug on Saturday August 10, 2019 @09:37PM (#20665663)
Which history are we seeing all over again? Amazon in 1997 losing money selling $5 books for $4, or pets.com losing money selling $50 bags of kibble for $40?
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Re:Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires by shaklee3 on Sunday August 11, 2019 @11:43AM (#20668629)
Except most of Amazon's money is made off AWS, and not retail. Amazon today would be very different if AWS didn't exist.
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Re:Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires by sowbug on Sunday August 11, 2019 @01:02PM (#20669083)
Yes, that was the point of the question: whether today's Uber is the first chapter of a larger plan to build a profitable business on top of a much simpler and possibly even inherently money-losing set of transactions, or whether it's already in its final form and is just a bad idea.
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