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		Avshalom on Dec 1, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zenefits ordered to stop offering free insurance s... Uber's business is taxi dispatch which has been successfully turning a profit for many companies much much smaller for many years.

Eridrus on Dec 3, 2016 [–]

I would argue that dispatch was never a large or profitable part of taxi companies. The profitable part was picking people up off the side of the road where network effects do not matter.

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