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Uber reaches incredible milestone: 2 billion rides

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 20 Jul 2016 10:12 User comments (1)

Uber reaches incredible milestone: 2 billion rides Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has announced this week that the company has reached an incredible milestone: 2 billion rides.
More impressively is the fact that the company hit 1 billion trips just seven months ago, six years after launching.

Uber is now in 450 cities and is the most-funded private company of all-time, having raised $13 billion since inception. The company is now valued at $62.5 billion.

For now the company has no plans to go public but when it does it will be the largest IPO since Alibaba and Facebook.

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122.7.2016 14:14

Yeah.......who cares!

McDonalds hit this long ago. Remember "Over a billion served" anyone??

Now, those signs are gone.


This is no milestone IMO. There are 7.1 billion on this planet so it's not an aww-inspiring figure.

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