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Out of curiosity, what's his involvement with "monopolistic dumping scheme"?

Looking through his Wikipedia (ok, not a fantastic reference source ;) ) entry, there doesn't seem to be any mention of involvement (employment/directorships/etc) with financial institutions.

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Uber's business model is to create a monopoly on a variety of transportation services using VC cash to dump the market, drive out their competitors, and then jack up prices:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)

Here's the info about their subprime lending:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/3/11852940/uber-subprime-auto...


Interesting, thanks. :)




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