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Re:To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided by fastball on Sunday November 22, 2020 @11:44PM (#25183668)
To my mind, any business which is generating value which didn't exist previously and captures a portion thereof is a savory business.

Uber therefore qualifies.

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Re:To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided by free_rms on Sunday November 22, 2020 @11:50PM (#25183691)
Uber didn't invent the car or the mobile phone, or cabs or food delivery.

What they invented was a business model that empowers capital and disempowers (some classes of) labor.

I hear their microservice architecture employs a lot of SWEs, though, so they've got that going.

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Re:To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided by fastball on Monday November 23, 2020 @08:51AM (#25186720)
No, Uber combined all those things together in a way that made them more efficient and more appealing to both drivers and riders.

If driving for Uber is worse than being a cab driver, why didn’t the vast majority of Uber drivers drive cabs before?

You don’t need to create completely innovative greenfield technologies in order to generate value.

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