oh Larry! totally agree with him on UBER and WEWORK
From BARRONS:
Ellison Sounds Off
Larry Ellison has never been shy about voicing his beliefs. And on Wednesday, he invited a group of entrepreneurs to his San Francisco home to answer their questions.
Barron's Eric Savitz watched as the Oracle co-founder shredded some of Silicon Valley's most-hyped companies. Uber Technologies and WeWork, he said, are “almost worthless.”
He ripped Uber with both a shrewd take on the market dynamics it faces and some ad hominem:
Ellison argued that while Uber raises capital to spend on gaining market share from rival Lyft (LYFT), the business they secure doesn’t necessarily stay with the company. He pointed out that Uber doesn’t own its cars and doesn’t control their drivers. And he declared that “they have an app my cat could have written.”
Ellison said losing money to gain market share is “idiotic” if customers won’t stay with the firm. “They have nothing,” he said. “No technology. And no loyalty.”
And then there's WeWork, which doesn't fare much better in Ellison's estimation.
He mocked WeWork’s assertion that it is a technology company. “WeWork rents a building from me, and breaks it up, and then rents it,” Ellison said. “They say, ‘We’re a technology company, and we want a tech multiple.’ It’s bizarre.”