The Uber Wars
Have you been following the Uber story? If you haven’t you should be if you consider yourself a student of business. Uber epitomizes the philosophy of “It’s better to just do it and apologize later than wait for permission.”
The CEO of this company is either a train wreck in the making or a genius. Only time will tell.
For now the company continues to move along a razor’s edge.
Either way this story will make for a great case study someday and perhaps even a movie along the lines of The Wolf of Wall Street.
Uber just goes from controversy to controversy due to its history of using dirty fighting tactics against competitors and anyone who dares to criticize its behavior.
This article will bring you up to speed on how it has achieved such rapid growth.
Have you seen this? Peter Thiel takes a shot at Uber too.
Uber is ‘most ethically challenged company in Silicon Valley’
http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/18/technology/uber-unethical-peter-thiel/index.html