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It's great that Kalanick moved quickly but between this and the other incidents, I don't think it's going to be enough. Kalanick himself may have to resign. Given a good competitor in Lyft and the relatively low barrier to entry on the core business, it will be difficult to weather this storm.

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I think that after some time people will forget about this. I read an article [1] today about how the anger that a lot of people feel towards Uber right now will not be enough to push them through the discomfort of moving to smaller competitors like Lyft. it's great that Susan Fowler spoke out but it's gonna take more (a much bigger problem) to cause Kalanick to resign (or be pushed out by the board).

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/why-uber-probably-never-will-...

I suspect the hits will keep coming [1]

[1] https://medium.com/@amyvertino/my-name-is-not-amy-i-am-an-ub...

> I think that after some time people will forget about this.

Except that it seems to come up every 8 months or so with Uber, so there's a constant reminder of what kind of company it is.

Lyft is a great competitor to Uber, and I use it more myself, but the businesses have grown very different in the past couple years.

Uber is very international while Lyft is only in the US, Uber has all of these side businesses beside transportation like UberEATS, which is the most reliable food delivery service in my experience.

I've been thinking about the two like: Uber is building the transit infrastructure, and Lyft is building the best personal transportation experience.

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