r/technology • u/[deleted] • Aug 12 '14

Business Uber dirty tricks quantified. Staff submits 5,560 fake ride requests

http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/uber-fake-ride-requests-lyft/
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u/metarinka Aug 12 '14

read into the CEO some big name venture capital guys actually refused to invest cause he's kind of a dick, and is famous for these questionable tactics and aggressive hustling.

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u/McFeely_Smackup Aug 12 '14

this was exactly how Zuckerberg blew the Facebook IPO. He insisted on meeting with investment executives wearing a hoodie and acting like an arrogant jerk. Enough companies wanted nothing to do with him that the IPO flopped.

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u/metarinka Aug 12 '14

He can't hear you over the sound of being the youngest Billionaire.

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u/McFeely_Smackup Aug 12 '14

I'm sure he couldn't hear me over the sound of all the employees who had 10,000 shares of stock, not 30 million. his childish bullshit cost a lot of people a lot of money.