[sehansen]

It's really interesting how much Uber was trying to do things the right way, only to then over-correct into being the most devious and underhanded app-taxi company.

But the other company that Uber reacted to was Wingz, Inc, not Lyft.

[infecto]

I am being pedantic and never worked for Uber but I always assumed it was sidecar, I vividly remember them all over the city with their side mirror covers--don't ever recall seeing Wingz, though I am sure the existed.

I would argue it was not even so much that they were doing "things the right way", they were optimizing black car service and pivoted because it was not as lucrative.

[kjkjadksj]

What they pivoted to wasn’t lucrative either. I ubered all the time when it came out because pricing was like $4-7 for most trips that would be $30ish or more now. It was fueled on vc money to prime a generation of people going to bars to use uber and it worked perfectly. Now people just reflexively call that uber even when its surging to $60.