[myhrvold]

Yeah I think that's in part because so much of the cultural zeitgeist around Uber was on the policy implications, and the effect on consumer behavior etcetera.

There were a ton of technical challenges in scaling.

Uber was also one of the earliest corporate deployers of Node back in 2010 and ended up having one of the largest in the world arguably (have no idea to what extent they've replaced in the last few years).

Uber's open source projects have led to spinout companies that have raised a lot of money successfully like Chronosphere and Tecton.ai .

Halloween and then New Year's were huge traffic challenges and the Uber app (both driver and rider) really pushed the bounds of what was possible in the 2010s with respect to a two-side real-time marketplace for ridesharing and food delivery.

(I worked at Uber 2014-2019 in engineering.)