I agree ad-based tech companies are going to be really hurt by this recession. So Facebook, Twitter and Google will suffer, but particularly Facebook and Twitter may not survive the next few years. Smaller tech companies based on affiliate or advertising revenue won't stand a chance.

I disagree that Uber is uniquely positioned to weather a recession. IMO they are too early - when we reach self-driving cars this type of company will be able to expand globally and prosper, but Uber is too early to do that, they're going to have to keep trying to make money with a huge host of freelance drivers and all the problems they bring (regulatory, cost, unions etc).

They just raised $2 Billion on a 120B valuation, but they're still losing huge amounts of money per year. Uber lost $1 billion in the third quarter 2018. Those are astronomical losses, that's around $4B a year. I don't think they have any chance of hitting a profit in a recession, they may survive, but they're going to squander huge amounts of money to do so.