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Uber Loses at Least $1.2 Billion in First Half of 2016

Uber Drivers Losing Money

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#1 Rogerdodger

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Posted 25 August 2016 - 12:35 PM

Uber Loses at Least $1.2 Billion in First Half of 2016

 

"You won't find too many technology companies that could lose this much money, this quickly," said Aswath Damodaran, a business professor at New York University who has written skeptically of Uber's astronomical valuation on his blog. "For a private business to raise as much capital as Uber has been able to is unprecedented."

 

 

 

Drivers are likely losing more than they make.

While the IRS allows 54 cents per mile as the COST of driving, most poor, ignorant drivers only consider the cost of gasoline and think they are making quick cash.
 

Beginning on Jan. 1, 2016, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car (also vans, pickups or panel trucks) will be:

54 cents per mile for business miles driven

 

 


Edited by Rogerdodger, 25 August 2016 - 12:36 PM.


#2 NAV

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Posted 25 August 2016 - 12:58 PM

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#3 Douglas

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Posted 25 August 2016 - 01:14 PM

They are using the early AMAZON model of selling a dollar for ninety-five cents.  AMAZON has succeeded in crushing many bricks & mortar competitors with this strategy.  UBER may not be so lucky since their competitors are also fleet-footed.

 

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#4 dasein

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Posted 25 August 2016 - 04:51 PM

the money they lose is just a sign of how much they will eventually make!


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#5 Rogerdodger

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Posted 26 August 2016 - 08:30 AM

the money they lose is just a sign of how much they will eventually make!

 

...says my wife at a casino.