Re:To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided
by fastball on Monday November 23, 2020 @08:51AM
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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.
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.