How has Uber been able to sustain itself for so long without having a single profitable year?
In: Economics
Investors keep giving Uber money.
So long as you have people willing to give you money (in the form of loans or investments for ownership) you can keep running at a loss for as long as the money holds out. Investors believe that Uber will _become_ profitable in the future, so they are willing to keep investing to help Uber get there.
When investors no longer feel that Uber has a profitable future, then it will need to get profitable _really fast_ or it will collapse.
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