A 'Fuck You' in this instance is ignoring regulations that have been in place for years preventing outside competition. This is the 'disrupt' startup model.
It works well when you have lots of capital to expand and fight lawsuits.
> it removed the driver’s power to reject you. It made price transparent. It weaponized accountability through ratings.
Wow. I really doubt this person took many ubers. if this was written by a person of course
Anyone can get rejected by drivers. Just canceling or the worst is if the driver is hiding somewhere next block and not moving, waiting for you to cancel. It's better when a taxi driver just tells you no
The price is not transparent. You know it in advance if it's uber X but it's not transparent. And of course Uber X with its "transparent price" cost the same or more as a regular taxi
I know of people who got scammed by an uber driver in india and were taken instead of their hotel in delhi all the way to kashmir. Or a friend just got dropped off on wrong street at night in a foreign country without internet. Etc
Is that actually the story of Uber? They didn't start with "let a random person drive you around"; they did licensed-limousine-by-app (which is the incremental "boring" improvement this post hates) until Lyft came around. They quickly copied the model (Lyft launched in May; "Uber X" in July 2012 [0]) but that's something to be said for agility and not necessarily getting the right idea at first.
sorry to hear that. curious if the product's approach was a fuck you to Workday though as in you can't even put them side by side and compare (they are so different) or if it was simply that Workday sucks, we will do better
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[ 5.4 ms ] story [ 30.6 ms ] threadIt works well when you have lots of capital to expand and fight lawsuits.
Wow. I really doubt this person took many ubers. if this was written by a person of course
Anyone can get rejected by drivers. Just canceling or the worst is if the driver is hiding somewhere next block and not moving, waiting for you to cancel. It's better when a taxi driver just tells you no
The price is not transparent. You know it in advance if it's uber X but it's not transparent. And of course Uber X with its "transparent price" cost the same or more as a regular taxi
I know of people who got scammed by an uber driver in india and were taken instead of their hotel in delhi all the way to kashmir. Or a friend just got dropped off on wrong street at night in a foreign country without internet. Etc
[0] here's a launch announcement with Lyft being listed as already being operational https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/01/uber-opens-up-platform-to-...
Unfortunately, HR execs said "fuck you" back in no uncertain terms.
I like the use of vulgar language, it hits way harder than all the blah-blah bullshit
I've been convinced by the power of "Fuck you" :)