There’s an Uber Files scandal in France, involving the French president.
Ugh.
Uber is this weird thing where I know they’ve been bad but also where I know how much they changed the game for good. They did.
In 2014, not so long ago, Uber was a freaking lifesaver. Taxis would be horrendous to me! I would never get one, or it was killing my bank account, $60 at a time. Uber solved that problem in a second.
I still remember my first driver, on a super-hot day, straight off of the T-Mobile shop, after grabbing my first and last US phone number. He was so happy to drive, and I was so happy to drink water in the back of his SUV.
But then, yeah. Virtually unlimited VC money, Bait & Switch tactics, massive lobbying at every government levels everywhere, and here we are.
I mentioned recently how every good idea turns into terrible business in no time these days, and Uber is probably the best example of this.