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Re:The Drivers Cooperative by ta988 on Friday March 26, 2021 @08:36AM (#26591327)
I'm not sure you realize that a product at that scale can't run with two people. You need lawyers, service support, testers, advertisers... People that hacl the other company to sabotage their launch (if you are not aware, uber did that).
Re:The Drivers Cooperative by agloeregrets on Friday March 26, 2021 @09:50AM (#26592114)
I was referring to Silicon valley salaries, obviously you would need ~ 50-100 people or such. At current scale of Uber, if they charged just a penny (instead of the 20-30% they currently do) They would make 16 million dollars which could pay 100 people an average of 100K per year, they could spend $4M on infrastructure and still make $2M in profit despite being not much more than a payment processor and app provider (like square or shopify) They bill more than 200X that on average.