Economics Leverage Transportation Valuation 
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
Uber created an entirely new vocabulary word and category of transportation service called ridesharing and a new way of describing their drivers — gig workers. It can also become the basis to build new value inside existing ecosystems — or leveraged by others to destroy its value. But that’s just one side of the Uber ecosystem.
PYMNTS
APRIL 15, 2019
Lyft is a self-described peer-to-peer marketplace focused on “revolutionizing transportation” and reducing traffic congestion in cities. For Uber, transportation is a platform feature that is central to its business, but is not its end game. Uber’s valuation is pegged at $100 billion. Once Upon a Platform.
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PYMNTS
OCTOBER 24, 2016
By leveraging the mobile phone and existing platforms, such as the Apple and Android mobile operating systems and the payments rails, the cloud, a variety of technologies like GPS and apps like Maps in 2009, Uber’s platform is totally transforming the transportation sector. The story of Uber is, by now, well-trodden turf. In the U.S.,
Barry Ritholtz
DECEMBER 14, 2022
MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right? MCCARTHY: — and end up in M&A on Wall Street.
Barry Ritholtz
MARCH 12, 2024
So in this, in this context of, of a mortgage now being clear to everyone that this default risk is present, it’s real, and it’s hard to price because following the borrower’s economic profile, there, there are defaults that are related to just life events, but there’s also defaults related to a macroeconomic event.
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