Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 17, 2017

and the taxi market. Based on data points from the global taxi and car-service market, he concluded the real number should be $5.9B. The reason the estimate was so off, as investor Bill Gurley pointed out , is that Uber goes beyond taxi use cases and grows the market substantially by unlocking many new categories of transportation.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

I’ve had folks over to 1455 Market St, the headquarters of Uber, and I’ve reciprocated with visits to the Airbnb offices too. Importantly, both companies are tremendous growth stories, and have needed to grow both demand but especially supply in all of their markets globally. Once you reach scale, fraud becomes a real issue.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

I’ve had folks over to 1455 Market St, the headquarters of Uber, and I’ve reciprocated with visits to the Airbnb offices too. Importantly, both companies are tremendous growth stories, and have needed to grow both demand but especially supply in all of their markets globally. Once you reach scale, fraud becomes a real issue.

User Experience 48

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