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> Startups' job isn't to fix a broken market

An aside...why are we still referring to Uber and Lyft as startups? They are 14 and 11 year old, extremely well established, multinational companies. They are no longer the little guys disrupting an entrenched market.

When do they stop getting the excuse of being startups?

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Totally fair, I tossed startup in there pretty loosely as I was thinking about their goals when they originally opened. I definitely don't consider them startups today.

Big Insurance/Banking companies is around a hundred years old. Uber is still a new business trying to prove it works.

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