[xwowsersx]

These stats are mindblowing. Uber is available to a little less than half of all Americans and with an average pickup time of < 10 mins. I'm amazed they were able to accomplish this in 4 years. Travis Kalanick is an insane entrepreneur.

[avelis]

I would give it up to their data science and machine learning team. They turned an idea into an executional reality and optimized it like no other.

I just heard Kevin Novak (@novakkm) speak @ Geekdom SF and he shared the approach he took along their journey.

[ehurrell]

Is this talk available online anywhere? I'd love to hear it, or at least a broad-strokes summary.

[avelis]

Here was the event page. http://www.meetup.com/SF-Data-Science/events/183290442/

No video up yet. I think it should be up soon. If I see it come up I will link it as a new post.

[pkaye]

I'm living in one of the top cities in the Bay Area and they don't yet cover there.

[CmonDev]

Bay Area is not a country, not even a state, so saying "one of the top cities" doesn't make any sense.

[pkaye]

My point being they are stating that their service is available to 137M people. The bay area is one of the top population centers in the US so I'm surprised they say they can get 40-50% coverage.

[neurobro]

It's a state-sized region with close to 100 cities, so it kind of does make sense (to the extent that "one of the top cities" is meaningful anywhere).