“Uber announced Wednesday that it will now offer customers the option to request a courier to return packages for them. The new offering is launching ahead of the upcoming holiday season in 52 metropolitan areas -- including over 4,950 cities -- across the U.S. from Boston to Honolulu, according to a…”— Abcnews.go.com, Yi-Jin Yu, abcnews.go.com
“Big wealth doesn’t come in monthly paychecks. It comes when a start-up goes public, transforming hypothetical money into extremely real money. This year — with Uber, Lyft, Slack, Postmates, Pinterest and Airbnb all hoping to enter the public markets — there’s going to be a lot of it in the Bay Area.”— Nellie Bowles, nytimes.com
“BoJack: Hey Todd can you drive me to get my car? Todd: Uhhhhhhh. BoJack: I wanted to be responsible last night so I Uber'd home, and left my car in the fountain.”— Peter Knight, BoJack Horseman (voice) / Todd Chavez (voice), Will Arnett / Aaron Paul, imdb.com
“And I’m sitting there and this lady comes up and goes, I want you children to know you can be anything you wanna be. You can be absolutely anything you wanna be. I’m like, 'Lady, why are you lying to these children?' Maybe four of them could be anything they wanna be. But the other 2,000 better lear…”— Chris Rock, scrapsfromtheloft.com
“Am I the only person who believes Travis Kalanick shouldn’t have been fired?”— Bob Lefsetz, lefsetz.com
“A town in New York State plans to spend $167,000 a year hiring Ubers for commuters, to avoid spending $15m building them a new car park at the station.”— Tom Whitwell, Leslie Hook, medium.com
“People desire control over their time more than almost anything. This is true of consumers, whose tastes in fashion comes and goes but whose desire to not wait in line or waste a weekend getting their car fixed is timeless. It’s true for employees, most of whom want to work hard but question everyth…”— Morgan Housel, linkedin.com
“Don't love the fact that I momentarily forgot I was in a Uber and started BELTING the chorus to 'Kiss from a Rose' but my driver sure did!”— Mamrie Hart, twitter.com
“We use React.js and standard Flux for our application rendering and state handling, though a few teams have been experimenting with Redux as our future state container. We are also migrating our existing OOCSS/BEM-style CSS toolkit, called Superfine, into a set of CSS-encapsulated React.js UI compon…”— Lucie Lozinski, eng.uber.com
“We use Tornado with Python, but Go’s native support for concurrency is ideal for most new performance-critical services.”— Lucie Lozinski, eng.uber.com
“The biggest elephant in the room is Uber, valued at $62.5 billion. The company claims it is profitable by some measures in North America, but it is spending huge amounts of money to capture markets in China and elsewhere.If the world’s most valuable startup must curtail its ambitions, it would send…”— Christopher Mims, wsj.com