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Uber's stock will experience high volatility as retail investors decide whether to buy or sell immediately after the IPO.
What happened: Uber’s shares saw significant volatility immediately after its June 2019 IPO, with a steep first‑day drop and continued price swings driven in part by retail investor activity.
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by that test the original uber would not have succeeded so we're in the situation of we're about to make a pile of money off something that we've now learned we wouldn't do again
we learned so much about these gig economy marketplaces from uber positive and negative so a number of the subsequent investments that we made we were looking for companies where the workers who are contractors in some cases employees and others really had a path into the middle class had the possibility of rising wages had benefits
uber and lyft drivers I wish they could have participated deeper in the equity and the cap tables and it's just illegal because of the current accreditation laws for those people to buy shares and private companies
what this does not include uber this is net of uber is a was uber it would be a hundred percent return strategies mine right stratospheric
created a large swath of gig economy work that I think is responsible in a lot of ways as a backstop against unemployment
uber has done a huge amount of work to improve relations with drivers but it is by no means done
the company still has a bunch of work to do on that (paying a living wage and benefits) but we as a society have a bunch of work to do also
uber and you know ride hailing services just changed all that yeah I mean just you know period on the work side it's a kind of interesting paradox driving for uber is can be and often is a great second job yeah and problematic is a first job
a lot of the good that came out of that company was it increased the number of transportation options for communities that didn't have access to them
I'm not planning on taking it too seriously at least for six months to a year to see what the markets do with the stock
you know Groupon has done a successful apprenticeship program where they they pay people they pay people enough there's a pro it's a balance there's a prospect of a of a job
figured out that test scores and GPA I can tell you this because it was publicly quoted are absolutely not predictors of job success at Google and so we don't use them anymore well great for that it's now 15 years into Google when they've been throwing people out of the process the whole time because they didn't go to the right school they didn't have the right test scores and they didn't have the right GPA so it is this is one of the things about the tech Community is you know we were all kind
Google has filed a suit asking at least just to be able to talk more specifically about what they're doing
profoundly uncomfortable Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page got when prism came out because they had been compelled to engage in a certain kind of cooperation with the government that I think they really didn't want to do
whether it's iPhone or Android or a phone or a tablet they are just amazing