> Uber is the most important and promising company of our generation.
Give me a break. Are you curing cancer? Are you solving hunger? Are you fixing climate issues?
I hate when employers talk like salesmen to their employees.
Give me a break. Are you curing cancer? Are you solving hunger? Are you fixing climate issues?
I hate when employers talk like salesmen to their employees.
Most cities would have no ride sharing industry to speak of had it not been for Uber de-fanging the taxi industry.
[1]: https://www.car2go.com/CA/en/ [2]: https://evo.ca [3]: http://www.zipcar.ca/vancouver [4]: http://modo.coop
(Also why Uber went on a sustained binge of offering 5$ rides in Boston; they didn't have anything else to compete with BMC on).
There are enough cars in Vancouver that you'll find one within a few blocks 90% of the time, so the argument of "not bringing a car with a driver" is moot unless you don't know how to drive. There's also no surge pricing. It's always the same flat rate.
I roll my eyes at this sentiment, which has become an increasingly common criticism of Silicon Valley. If Facebook improves ad targeting, and it helps millions of businesses and individuals reach potential users more effectively at a lower cost that is still good for the world, even if the effort was primarily profit-driven.
Maybe we don't have to applaud it as heroism, but there's no doubt in my mind that ride sharing as a concept is a good thing for many people and a good thing for the world.