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Get Brave, it works very well.
It is still blocked in Brave.
Ah I was meaning to say use Brave as it will by pass adblock walls.
How Uber Backers Orchestrated Kalanick’s Ouster as CEO
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They are active in more than 600 cities. Even assuming tech support, design, engineering and R&D staff are negligible, 20 employees per city seems to make sense. Partnership, Marketing, legal, operations, vehicle rentals. Their software might scale and business model replicable across many cities, but they still need people on the ground running.
All those cities are located in less than 100 states. What are those people on the ground doing?
You need people on the ground to recruit and hire drivers, hand out ride incentives (especially on campuses), manage out-of-home advertising and local events, manage the in-city staff...
It's easy to think everything is handled online via digital advertising, but ops-heavy businesses like this require bodies on the ground.
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Beats me. I wasn't debating the status of Uber drivers, just the assertion that McDonalds can't force you to buy expensive equipment.
Do you or do you not understand the difference between a franchise owner and a fry cook?
"Except McDonalds can't make you pay for your own fry station. Or lease it from McDonalds at high rates"
Do you or do you not understand that this statement is false, regardless of the status of Uber drivers?
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Kalanick is less CEO and more like a comic book caricature of one before they fall into pure evil. The fact that the board stood by him as long as they did is just mind bending.
He created a service that reduced drunk driving rates by 1/3, enabled nearly 200K drivers to become entrepreneurs, provided a valuable service to millions of customers, and accelerated the shift to self driving cars. That deserves serious credit.
wow straight from the uber marketing dept...
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you or do you not understand the difference between a franchise owner and a fry cook?
"Except McDonalds can't make you pay for your own fry station. Or lease it from McDonalds at high rates" Do you or do you not understand that this statement is false, regardless of the status of Uber drivers?
That's a very selective quotation.
"You" in the original comment was very obviously a fry cook: "Uber drivers are entrepreneurs like the fry-station cook at mcdonalds is a small business owner. Except McDonalds can't make you pay for your own fry station."
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#127Why does everyone in this thread hate Uber so much? Because muh soggy knees?
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#128Why does everyone in this thread hate Uber so much? Because muh soggy knees?
I mean, duh?
There are definitely examples of sexism that are less clear-cut, but uber is a pretty blatant example of sexism in the tech industry.
I mean for shits sake they just had to call in the former attorney general to audit their workplace because of it.
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#129In retrospect, it is interesting to see that a reflective blog post from an engineer ended up in the casualties of CEO, most of the senior leadership and a few board members. Maybe the cracks were already there but nevertheless it has been surreal seeing this unfold in the space of 5 months. It is almost like watching the butterfly effect in action.
If a company is already morally bankrupt there is little recourse left.
I am, in a way, pleased to see this happen from a personal standpoint. As an admin at a previous organization I had reported harassment, abuse, and bullying directly to HR multiple times from several of the top sales executives. Calls and emails were logged, documented and sent.
Not long after, I was terminated.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
He created a service that reduced drunk driving rates by 1/3, enabled nearly 200K drivers to become entrepreneurs, provided a valuable service to millions of customers, and accelerated the shift to self driving cars. That deserves serious credit.
Lets take this point by point: - reduced drunk driving rates by 1/3 Not going to argue with that one, it is good. - enabled nearly 200K drivers to become entrepreneurs I used to work in direct sales, aka multi level marketing. They too called the people there "entrepreneurs". Those very people your describing as "entrepreneurs" have been suing Uber for missing money. When confronted by one of these drivers about mone…
I think this one it my favorite on the list.
- Accelerated the shift to self driving cars. That deserves serious credit.
If you consider corporate espionage and theft of IP "accelerating the shift" but how much of what Uber was marketing were they actually responsible for?