*operates for 10 years without profit*

>women go on living after they hit the wall at 25
How do they do it?

They dont, at least not for long
telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/16/lonely-hearted-nurse-accidentally-killed-makinglast-cry-help/
Also wall25 is for Chads, there is the beta wall35

I won' find another trap and she won't miss ma

You realize how VC funding works right? They give them money for growth. Then the company either establishes a monopoly and is guaranteed profit like Amazon or the company 'exits' and is acquired by a bigger company and the VCs shares convert to shares in a bigger company or they get cash or both.

>without profit

Utter bullshit.
They make shitloads of money, they just hide it from tax collectors.

by being financed by the US govt to collect data massively, and then by convincing rich but dumb people to invest in their "business"
now I wonder, do drivers really make a profit? considering that they don't seem to take their own time and the car usage/maintenance as costs when calculating profits...

>How can tech companies get away with this?
Sometimes you make more money in taxes, subsidies, grants, and write offs then you do with traditional "profit".

And eventually you open a letterbox "HQ" in Amsterdam where you pay 0% corporate tax and your shareholders pay 0% tax over their dividend earnings.

they can't uber goes bankrupt this year check it

How about
*operates for 10 years with billion/hundred million dollar yearly loses*
instead

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>Every company should have an infinite growth model instead of making a comfy profit.

Amazon operated for literally at a loss for 15 years before turning out profits literally every quarter.

There's a reason that venture capital companies are willing to back these companies that don't make profit for a while if it's a good company and product is strong -- it's because the "grow quickly first and then worry about profits" model works for high-scaling businesses that leverage technology for near-zero marginal costs.

Trust me, Uber will be monstrously profitable in 5-10 years.

three coma club motherfuckeeeer

alot of them get grants from the us gubmint

uber is doing the walmart strategy of driving the price for your service down so they can slowly attrition all competition like taxis and public transit so that once they have a monopoly they can jack the prices up and fuck you in the ass because you have no other options

Not fucking funny bro

I got my first kiss at 25. I drove 18 hours by motorcycle to another country to get it. Crashed 20min away, broke both my hands, couldn't hug the girl when I got there. Pinky fingers broken for life. Motorcycle used I bought with 1000 bitcoins.

>Not fucking funny bro
Yes it is
>I got my first kiss at 25. I drove 18 hours by motorcycle to another country to get it. Crashed 20min away, broke both my hands, couldn't hug the girl when I got there
That's hilarious
>Motorcycle used I bought with 1000 bitcoins
Holy shit it's like icing on the cake

What about Dell?
Aren't they only worth like $15 billion or so but have $50 billion debt?

they hope to get a monopoly

anime, games, drugs, 4channel, porn. Really depends on the person

As long as you don't forget to post a thank you card to Rutte every year.

venture capital and the silicon dream

I've kissed a girl on the cheek.
I also got kissed on the cheek by a girl at 24.
It wasn't consensual but I felt like I would be laughed at if I tried to press charges.

this. When VC realizes this industry is nothing special, that's when it all comes crashing down.

about $3.50 says she was one of THOSE, you know the kind - never really viewed sex as something people do or had something wrong with her downstairs that made fuckin' painful instead of pleasurable. then when she'd date dudes from the internet she'd either be confused as to what they were doing or disgusted when they eventually wanted sex. dudes get into some autistic shit, but nothing as bad as that.

10/10
I LOL'd out loud.

Order 1 bottle of this.

ancestralsupplements.com/bone-marrow

Take 1 capsule per day with your biggest, most serious meal. Take the capsule once you're done with your food. Once the bottle is finished, see if your pinkie fingers feel even just a little better.

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I think it boils down to :
> Having its entire existence located inside an economic boom
> Rich people have been getting richer and have A LOT of money to do something with

In a non stupid-money, law abiding world Uber would be a small vendor for transportation companies such as limo service and taxis.

please no, i need them at least once a week!

Two ways: like Amazon does where profits are reinvested to drive more growth, and like dumb bubble companies where their entire business model is "stay afloat on VC money and stock sales until someone buys you out."

fuck off

It's a fucking app, jeez. Doesn't take more money than hosting Jow Forums[nel].

Imagine defining your entire self worth around interactions with other people.

Not that user.
After reading this from the owner, I'm skeptical.
But I'm willing to separate the producer from the product and give it a try.
My teeth and bones are fucked on their own.

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Imagine coping this hard.

The irony.

kys roastie

they're collecting data
also, most things operate without profit

>Trust me, Uber will be monstrously profitable in 5-10 years.
not if regulations finally put an end to its business model.

Can you elaborate?
I'm curious if they're doing something obviously wrong/illegal.
I know the drivers complain all the time about how little they make but if they agree to it, that's their choice.

I wonder if Google is going to eat their lunch too with Waymo.

They are banned in more and more country, city

How the fuck can they be in debt ? It's an app right ? They are just the framework that makes it possible for drivers to find customers and earn money, am i wrong ? Of course i know that they must have a ton of lawyers and shit, but surely the share they take in every transaction must be more than enough

I'm curious about this too. In my country we have something similar like Uber, and the drivers started to complain nowadays that its not as profitable as 3-4 years ago.
The company in question will survive, because now they're big enough and started to diversification their product.

it's a thinly-veiled illegal taxicab operation.

>nurse
Do you know any yourself? Anything below doctor or nurse is shit tier to them. She should have lowered her standards.

Tesla

properly marketing in other country's for growth and R&D intro things like AI driving cars

How new are you, probably 25% of all companies on nasdaq and nyse havent made profit ever

Advertisement and development.
They are working on self driving cars

I can't understand the need for Taxis or their regulations to be honest.
Compared to how things are handled internally for so called "ride services".
Is the concern around taxes specifically, or is it something else?

Very simply put, city and state governments impose limits, taxation and regulations on taxi services that for some reason "share ride" companies are allowed to evade or simply don't apply to them because of reasons. Simply put, it isn't fair no matter how you look at it. You either apply the same limits, taxation and regulation to everyone, or you remove them for taxis.

Well, this is the company
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-Jek

what is the irony?

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Depending on something external is a coping mechanism. It's no different than drug addicts.
It's okay to enjoy yourself once and a while, you don't have to center around other people just to be happy. Projecting this insecurity on to others doesn't help either, not that I'm implying you're doing that, but some do.

Basically, I'm sick of hearing 13 year olds post this garbage.

>Depending on something external is a coping mechanism
Are you suggesting anything short of meditation is a coping mechanism?

One could argue meditation is something external.
I'm implying that your default state should be content. To imply that being alone is negative, displays a lack of self worth to me, but I'm not a psychologist.

It just seems like a lot of people trying to justify the lengths at which they go through to maintain their habit. No different than any other. No worse, no better.
Like drug addicts, or /v/(children).

>he doesn't have the latest fortnight dance for only 9 payments of $9.999

>To imply that being alone is negative, displays a lack of self worth to me
Humans are inherently social animals, being alone is literally torture as it is used as punishment. You have some sort of puritan view of human nature and you deny the humanity in human nature. Sounds to me like you're the one with the problem not the one who "copes" by using external stimulation.

Delete this

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>bone marrow
enjoy your aplastic anemia

>You have some sort of puritan view of human nature and you deny the humanity in human nature
You and everyone else literally do this every day.
What do you think civilization is?
To imply that being alone is torture is madness. It's not fire, you can stand to be alone.
Literally what is so horrible about it?

Regardless you act as if it's black and white.
Interaction in moderation is not atypical. The problem is when you have the mentality that you posted. "torture" This is laughable.
Do you spend every moment with someone else? Do you melt if they get more than 10 feet away?

>Depending on something external is a coping mechanism

Straight up delusional.

webmd.com/balance/news/20180504/loneliness-rivals-obesity-smoking-as-health-risk

"No man is an island" isn't just a pithy saying, it's how your mind works. Lacking social connections is deeply unhealthy, over time it can literally kill you. It's also a positive feedback loop, in that the lonelier you are, the less capable you are of forming the relationships you need to drag you out of your loneliness. Which is why so many people end up on sites like this.

>Which is why so many people end up on sites like this.
In what world does a public forum not count as social interaction.
If you are reading this you are not "lonely". I am not your mind, idiot.
Talk about delusion. Snap out of your fugue state for a minute, this is real life.

>drowning is bad for you
>HURR DURR THEN HOW DO PEOPLE DRINK WATER?

Stop being deliberately obtuse. Unless you have autism, you knew exactly what that user meant by being alone. Either post in good faith or fuck off.

>kissing a girl
why would you tho? the mouth has more bacteria than the anus and who knows what females have stuffed in there on top of that

>In what world does a public forum not count as social interaction

"Who needs friends when I have Jow Forums," jesus christ the cope is unreal. Cut it out man, you're not fooling anyone, probably not even yourself.

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>kissing second hand black dick
yeah no thx

kek

in the sense that you need to interact to trade and work not to socialise

How is your post not another strawman composed of a false dichotomy.
Again, that is not my position.
To imply that someone here of all places, is kissless, does not imply that they are lonely or overtly social.

It's stupid that people continue to suggest this for no reason.

Same as above. You're misconstruing the statment. Intentionally or otherwise.
I'm assuming I struck some kind of nerve since the images are coming out.

Hey guess what, I'm going to close this thread and go be alone for a few hours. Can you imagine how bad it's going to be for me to enjoy myself? Literally torture.

>can't imagine a girl without thinking of her sucking black dick

You got problems boyo

>if you live in a bad part of the world it must be your problem

It all depends on how you define being alone. You can be alone in solitary confinement or you can be alone in a party with a hundred other people. It doesn't change the fact that in social isolation you die at a faster rate than if you were to have social interaction, it would be laughable if it weren't supported by statistics. You are alone as long as you feel alone, you could say you can also be alone without having made that choice and as such you will never be content with it even if you try and this is what all religions world wide try to teach humanity to do, its what MRAs try to teach men to do, its what the IDW lectures everyone about. That if you develop yourself you will no longer feel alone, that is a nice sentiment and it may even work for a good percentage of people out there, modernity however shows us that there is something else at play here, and that is truly exemplified by Japan and China where huge numbers of singles are a fact of life and no one seems to be able to fix it, how do you suggest they cope? They're in isolation and it is slowly killing them. If you are fortunate enough to not be neurotypical and feel just fine on your own without external stimulation or socialization well... hurray for you

uber is a software company?

>How is your post not another strawman composed of a false dichotomy

I'm using an analogy to show you the absurdity of your own post, you fucking idiot. "Being alone for a few hours is okay, therefore loneliness isn't a problem" is a legitimately retarded position. If you can't understand what is meant by loneliness in this context, i'm not joking, you genuinely might have autism.

I mean, kind of. After all, they don't own their own cars (outside the driverless prototypes). Uber is an app. Hence a software company.

Why do taxis need regulation in the first place?

why are you so racist?

It's an unprofessional shit company

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Are you being naive for the fun of it or are you truly asking?

i guess you're right because iirc they do manage their clients data just like face berg

I'm asking.

kek is that the real driver? the mutt meme is real?

>They're in isolation and it is slowly killing them
AAAAAAAAHHHHHH I'm getting age spots and I'm only 23! fuckfuckfuck

dont forget to never go public, investors lead to the ruin of a company more often than not.

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taxes, safety and public order.
anyone who operates a business that puts people at risk must be insured so that if customers are injured they at least will be covered. driving cars is very risky. are uber drivers commercially insured? I don't think so.
cities limit the amount of taxis to prevent too much traffic from taxis driving around looking for customers.

Because ancapism is a meme ideology no actual economist takes seriously.

>You are alone as long as you feel alone,
I can't understand how you could feel this way without being confined.
Perhaps that is my bias.

It's an actual paradox to me. If I can know someone else holds that expression, then we interacted.
Like in your example of "being alone at a party", it makes no sense to me. At the end of the day, you went to a party, and people where there, and you must have had some interaction. Somehow. You where there.

I'm of the conjecture that if you deny this reality, it is some mental disorder.
Stating that these statistic are not causal.
i.e. someone is clinically/chemically/physically depressed, they are "alone" only in the words they use to convey to another human being.

>exemplified by Japan and China where huge numbers of singles are a fact of life and no one seems to be able to fix it
If this is your opinion, I'll see it as your bias.
It's a preconceived notion that being alone is inherently bad.
We are not at risk of extinction, and there's no other basis. Citing the statistic is cyclical.
>being alone is bad because people that are alone seem to have health problems
But for what reason?
I remain unconvinced that these people don't have innate mental defects.

Claiming that you're lonely, to another person, is retarded. Get a spine.

>Like in your example of "being alone at a party", it makes no sense to me. At the end of the day, you went to a party, and people where there, and you must have had some interaction.

Maybe you're in the autism spectrum if you can't understand that example, you need to have it diagnosed.

>you went to a party, and people where there, and you must have had some interaction
You underestimate my ability to avoid eye contact.