Can Uber Ever Deliver? Parts 1-9

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Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part One – Understanding Uber’s Bleak Operating Economics | naked capitalism

Uber's financials statements and economics shows a complete lack of progress towards profit and no r...

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Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Two: Understanding Uber’s Uncompetitive Costs | naked capitalism

Why Uber is the taxi industry's high cost producer and cannot grow into profitability.

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Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Three: Understanding False Claims About Uber’s Innovation and Competitive Advantages | naked capitalism

Why Uber does not have any significant competitive advantages save very deep pockets that allow it t...

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Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Four: Understanding That Unregulated Monopoly Was Always Uber’s Central Objective | naked capitalism

Why Uber's goal is replacing urban car service with a higher cost, less efficient operation that wou...

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Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Five: Addressing Reader Comments and Questions | naked capitalism

Hubert Horan answers questions about his series on Uber.

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Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Six: Latest Data Confirms Bleak P&L Performance While Stephen Levitt Makes Indefensible Consumer Welfare Claims | naked capitalism

More on Uber's questionable prospects and the dubious defenses offered by boosters, in this case, "F...

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Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Seven: Uber’s “Narrative” and The Vox and Stratechery Critiques of Naked Capitalism’s Uber Series – Defending Uber Requires Ignoring Industry Economics | naked capitalism

More discussion of defenses of Uber and how none of them deal with the economics of providing car ri...

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Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Eight: Brad Stone’s Uber Book “The Upstarts”– PR/Propaganda Masquerading as Journalism | naked capitalism

By Hubert Horan, who has 40 years of experience in the management and regulation of transportation c...

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Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Nine: The 1990s Koch Funded Propaganda Program That is Uber’s True Origin Story | naked capitalism

The perception that Uber is a competitive success comes from a recycled propaganda campaign.

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