Tell that to Mark Zuckerberg. Negative press is meaningless when you dominate your industry. Uber doesn't quite yet, so it must press forward hard. Any attempt to slow down to appease the media would be foolish.

Ex-FB employee here. Honestly most of my old coworkers now seem to be at Uber and doing the same ultra insane seige mentality shit where you convince yourself that you're company is doing the right thing no matter what and that anyone who thinks otherwise are "haters".

While this may be a great media/PR strategy, its also a pretty good litmus test as to whether you're a respectable human being imo.

Then again, they might be the new Groupon. Consumers are fickle.

Andrew Mason is still a multi-hundred-millionaire, Eric Lefkofsky is still a billionaire, and Groupon is still a billion-dollar company.

> Negative press is meaningless when you dominate your industry

Taxi companies dominate the taxi industry, it seems to me: they're shutting down Uber in more and more places.

As I said, Uber doesn't dominate yet. Which is why they need to spend their time fight the taxis and not the media.

I read it. I think they're a long way from dominating much of anything in some ways, given how easy it is for regulators to shut them down.

I'm not anti-Uber or at least anti-disruption for the taxi industry. Here in Italy the taxi lobby is strong and very, very much against any kind of change or liberalization, and can use pretty nasty tactics themselves when they feel threatened.

No they have really fucked themselves. They need to be getting city councils on their side. They're not. They are getting shut down left, right and centre at the moment. They don't dominate anywhere except maybe SF?

They just opened here in Padova, today:

http://corrieredelveneto.corriere.it/padova/notizie/cronaca/...

They're definitely hurting, but I don't think it's "game over" just yet. But it seems to be a critical moment for them.