Grab is said to be the “Asian Uber” but it’s much more than that. They also offer financial services and yes – funding for your startup with Grab Ventures. Grab operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for driver-partners and customers in South East Asia. It offers services like GrabTaxi, GrabCar, GrabHitch, GrabShare, GrabCoach,[…]
From Zero Hedge: After failing to convince GrubHub’s millennial managers that a tie-up would be the best bet for the publicly traded takeaway rival to Uber’s fast-growing Uber Eats, Uber has moved on to ‘Plan B’, and agreed to buy Postmates in a $2.65 billion all-stock deal. Uber Eats head Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty is expected to[…]
From the Atlantic: Here’s a deeply strange thing about Uber, which publicly filed for its IPO today: The company has lost $10 billion from operations, just since 2016, and while riders have paid $79.4 billion for rides, many drivers attest that they can barely scrape together a living. So no part of the operation is a[…]
From Zero Hedge: Shortly after Uber reported that even as the company continues to grow, generating record revenue in the latest quarter, yet burning ever more cash to preserve market share and grow it business as shown by its increasingly more negative EBITDA… … on Friday, Uber’s biggest competitor Lyft finally filed its long-awaited IPO[…]
Forbes March 2016 Eight and a Half X: TV star Ashton Kutcher and Madonna manager Guy Oseary teamed with billionaire Ron Burkle to turn $30 million into $250 million with investments like Uber and Airbnb. Liberty Media is betting $100 million the duo can do it again–on their own. (Photos: Tim Pannell for Forbes). Ashton[…]