[bossyTeacher]

Read the Uber Files. Uber is on record for lobbying the most powerful governments on Earth. Macron for example was on first name terms with Uber. Also, Uber had systems to prevent the police from seeing incriminating data during police raids.

Basically, Uber had powerful allies and was willing to do illegal things. That's the difference between Uber and the other apps that got shut down for breaking the law

[fcsp]

And yet, it took them a veeeery long time and a looot of money to post a quarter profit, not to mention making up for all the outside investment

[bossyTeacher]

Remember had moonshots to justify their high valuation. The self driving car division was one and the self driving trucks was another one. Those things were veeeeeery expensive to run