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Re:Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year by TeMPOraL on Monday December 14, 2020 @06:05PM (#25424610)
> or would it have spawned enough copycats during its slow growth phase who would soon make it infeasible to scale up and hire the kind of engineers that a venture like ridesharing would need?

Would that be a problem? At least from the point of view of a customer, I don't want a single megacorp owning the market (and let's cut the marketing BS: Uber is not a startup, and hasn't been for a while; it's a multinational corporation). More "copycats" is usually better, as they compete (until they start racing to the bottom, but that's another issue entirely).

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Re:Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year by fakedang on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @01:44AM (#25427694)
I was talking about Uber circa 2009. Were it bootstrapped, we would have seen 5-6 loss making entities competing against each other by 2014 - and Uber wouldn't have likely expanded outside the US.
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Re:Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year by TeMPOraL on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @02:57AM (#25428044)
I understand. But I don't consider Uber's success a good thing - it was a ruthless company that cornered the market through illegal and antisocial behavior, and unfortunately set a path for other startups to follow. I believe we'd be better off if Uber died very early, and allowed one of their above-board competitors to disrupt the taxi space.
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