Public transport is covered in ads, has a much higher ridership than rideshares (i.e. has many more eyeballs to sell, and much lower per-user costs) and isn't even close to being profitable from ad revenue.
> Free, ad-supported Uber rides are inevitable, and if Uber doesn’t do them, a different competitor – perhaps Google! – will do it.
This doesn't survive 5 min of serious analysis. Not everything that becomes cheap end up free
But hey, if they BS hard enough Sequoia might put a lot of money in them
They don’t even need to BS very hard if they are a partner in the firm, and sponsor a “vetted” team that they think can pivot from something stupid to something profitable.
I imagine they would have the driver multitask as the presenter.