Lyft IPO puts investors in self-driving cars as well as ride services

reuters.com

55 points·msoad··8 comments

What a strange article speculating on a Lyft IPO without adding any substance to the conversation.

Perhaps lyft is putting out “feeler” articles to gauge public reaction to both an ipo and their relative valuation to Uber?

I had a similar reaction because the tech savvy investors who are already looking at U/L know that they're a proxy for self-driving cars.

Which makes me suspect that it's not for a them or even us.

I suspect this is for the completely tech-unsavvy investors who need prodding to remember "oh yeah, I can get in on that." If that drives interest and demand for the stock, more power to them.

Fleecing the retail investor again. Sigh.

It's a pretty good context article, if you've missed recent news.

There is no Lyft IPO (yet), so the headline is worded a little strangely.

There's another realm where this kind of grammatical construction is apparently common, though: sports. There's a so-called "sports subjunctive" / "baseball conditional" statement.

See http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004521.h... and http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3808 for another way this usage has spread a little bit elsewhere.

That's like viewing Space-X stock as a proxy for real estate on Mars.

I think it is worse, self-driving cars change two-way market to one-way market and removes Lyfts biggest competitive advantage. It is like investing Kodak at 2007 because camera phones are next big thing.

On Equidate someone wants to buy $1m of Lyft stock from an employee or otherwise.

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