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Airbnb disrupts hotels because it doesn’t own real estate. DoorDash disrupts food delivery because it doesn’t own restaurants or drivers. Uber disrupts transportation because it doesn’t own any cars. As a ridehailing service, Uber is divisive to riders, the cheap fares, upfront pricing, cashless payment, and ondemand pickups are upgrades over taxis. To others, Uber is a public nuisance that causes greater traffic congestion and pollution. For some drivers, Uber is a useful gig where they can work flexible hours. For others, Uber is an exploitative middleman who has lowered payouts and provides inadequate benefits to drivers as independent contractors.

The purpose of this episode is not to rehash Uber’s checkered past but instead to assess Uber’s profitability. As the most prominent, wellfunded company in the past decade, Uber is the largest living embodiment of Silicon Valley. Uber is the only tech startup in history to raise over $25 billion and still not turn a profit after 13 years of operations.

If the most wellfunded startup in history during the greatest bull market can’t turn a profit, then no one can. Since Airbnb, DoorDash, and other B2C tech companies are based on the same ondemand, sharing economy platform business model if Uber can’t hack it, then neither can they. It’s not just the future of transportation, but also tech that rides on Uber’s profitability. In this episode, we’ll cover Uber, it’s strategies, and how far away the company is in its desperate march to profitability.

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Audio Editing & Mixing: Sonalf

0:00 Why Uber Matters
6:38 Sponsor Break
15:20 Manifest Destiny
22:27 Scale or Die
33:15 Inevitable Economics