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by simianwords 46 days ago
There is no evidence that Uber was systemically losing money per ride instead of at edge cases. Share your evidence please.
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> Share your evidence please.

This is an impossible ask unless one works at Uber. I can tell you that i saw how much they were spending on ads back in 2016, and how long it continued and can assure you that they were 100% losing money back then.

Like, even now their margin is around 10% (they made 5bn on 50bn of revenue). Other software companies make a much, much, much better margin because Uber is basically not a real software business, it's an app attached to a low-margin delivery business.

ads =/= rides
Yeah totally. In some ways Google and Facebook being so wildly profitable was very bad for future tech startups.

Nonetheless, that's the bar from a financial perspective, and I honestly don't think Uber has (or will) hit that bar.