6 Ways Uber Has Changed How We Get From Point A to Point B
Skift Take
If there's one combined lesson travel companies can take from Uber it's this: Make the experience seamless.
Sharing economy companies have truly changed how we visit destinations, how we stay there, and how we move around.
Services such as Uber and Airbnb have taken the best of the web, mobile, and social to create travel products that allow people to find rides or places to stay with an ease that was previously unheard of. Their success has shown the errors of regulation in some areas, as well as demonstrated that hubris and a disregard for local laws isn’t the hinderance to success that one would assume.
Will they live up to the $10 billion-plus valuations we see at Airbnb and Uber, will they be snapped up by older companies hedging their bets, or will they go the IPO route and seek Facebook-like validation for their products?
In this two-part series, we are looking at the poster children for the movement: Airbnb and Uber. Last week was Airbnb. Now it's Uber's turn.
The Case for Uber
We're on the record doubting whether Uber will really be worth the tens of billions of dol
