Tag: Uber
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20 years of business travel – you’ll get there, or you won’t
The first thing is, the travel industry changes very slowly. What changes most frequently is the interior decorating. The seats in planes, the plugs in hotel rooms, the signs in airports. Even these don’t change structurally, just in aesthetically. The biggest change in 20 years has been Uber. I started traveling in 20051 which meant…
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Corporate culture can just be a tool to match the needs of the moment.
The conclusion here is clear: the industry will want different things from you as it evolves, and it will tell you that each of those shifts is because of some complex moral change, but it’s pretty much always about business realities changing. If you take any current morality tale as true, then you’re setting yourself…
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Blitzscaling for tyrants – by Henry Farrell –
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🗂 Link: Older People Need Rides. Why Aren’t They Using Uber and Lyft?
More than half of adults over 65 own smartphones, the Pew Research Center has reported. Yet among adults 50 and older, only about a quarter used ride-hailing services in 2018 (a leap, however, from 7 percent in 2015). By comparison, half of those aged 18 to 29 had used them. Source: Older People Need Rides.…
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🗂 Link: Uber’s no-good, terrible-rotten bad Q2 loses more than $5 billion
There’s yet to be any real evidence that Uber’s business model will ever do anything other than burn investors’ money to make traffic worse. Source: Uber’s no-good, terrible-rotten bad Q2 loses more than $5 billion
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Link: Why Uber’s Business Model May Not Be Viable
The sharing economy, fueled by the internet’s capacity to match small buyers and sellers, looks like a revolutionary business model. But for this model to be sustained, there must be a reliable source of long-term profits. Ride-hailing is perhaps the application of the sharing economy that is currently most developed, so its success or failure…
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Link: How Tech Companies Conquered America’s Cities
“But what Uber lacked in political support it made up for in local popularity. Through its app, the company had a direct connection to thousands of riders and drivers who were making a living from its service.” Original source: How Tech Companies Conquered America’s Cities
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Link: Uber Spent $10.7 Billion in Nine Years. Does It Have Enough to Show for It?
“Amazon.com Inc. is famous for its losses over the years. But even in the heyday of the dot-com bubble, the e-commerce giant never came close. Amazon’s biggest loss was in 2000—a $1.4 billion embarrassment, or about $2 billion adjusted for inflation. Most years, Amazon turns a profit, albeit a small one. What Uber backers can…
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Link: Uber, Lyft & the roads of hell
“I can live without Facebook. I can mange without Google, but given my inability to (and more importantly lack of desire) to drive, I cannot survive without Uber.” Original source: Uber, Lyft & the roads of hell
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Link: Meet Kate Garman, Seattle’s smart cities coordinator, tasked with making the city more efficient
Examples of what a city would do with IoT: “The private sector has pushed cities in a lot of ways,” she said. “My favorite example is, because Uber and Lyft and other transportation network companies could show you where your ride is on your phone, people started really asking, ‘Well, where’s my snow plow? Where…
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Link: Your Uber Car Creates Congestion. That May Cost You More To Ride. – New York Times
“About 103,000 for-hire vehicles operate in the city, more than double the roughly 47,000 in 2013, according to the Taxi and Limousine Commission. Of those, 68,000 are affiliated with ride-hailing app companies, including 65,000 with Uber alone, though they may also provide rides for others. In contrast, yellow taxis are capped by city law at…
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Coté Memo #8 – Change Review Boards Are Annoying
This week it’s DevOpsDays Seattle after a few days at home. I have two extra passes to give out to that conference if you’re interested, plus a discount code, per usual. Check out cote.io/promos for that code plus discounts to other DevOpsDays, OSCON Austin, and the Cloud Foundry summit. OSCON is next week in Austin,…
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Coté Memo: 3:30am plastic man traveling, keeping up the VMware’s CAGR
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #26. Today we have 33 subscribers, so we’re +1. DANDY! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). Sponsors Come check out cloud hijinks at 451’s HCTS conference…
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