People have had cars, addresses, and telephones for a century. Pizza and Chinese food have been showing up at people’s doorsteps for decades. Surely it seems like everything one would need to build a food delivery contracting company existed before the internet. What was missing that prevented me from ordering tacos by phone in 1995?
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They are not really viable economically. Most run on the same model: fake it till you make it. They basically compete using other’s people’s money and try to gain a significant market share. Once they do this they cash out during the IPO. Basically a money losing company suddenly worth billions even though it might never make a profit.
Recent Uber profits came out, lost more money than ever and they admitted they have no idea when they will make profit. IPO price was $45 now its $ 3x.
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