Car-Sharing Start-Up HyreCar Beats IPO Expectations by $3M
Tweet Listen to the Podcast The car-sharing start-up HyreCar announced in May they would be seeking to file an IPO for their company. Their goal was to sell up to 2 million shares at around…
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The Great Exec Exodus: Uber and Tesla See Execs Leave
Tweet Uber’s Chief Product Officer Jeff Holden Is Leaving Company (Wall Street Journal) Uber Technologies Inc.’s chief product officer, Jeff Holden, said he is leaving the company after a four-year stint that included the development…
Uber Sells Xchange Leasing Portfolio to Leasing Startup Fair
Tweet Uber has sold off one of its units that has sat peripherally to its business. Fair, the car leasing startup that announced debt and equity funding of up to $1 billion in October, has…
GM and Lyft Have a Complicated Relationship
The GM Lyft partnership is complicated. Both parties are free to play the field. GM is shifting focus onto Uber, while Alphabet leads $1B investment into Lyft.
Uber and NASA Flying Taxis
Tweet For a long time the idea of flying cars have been a part of society’s shared vision of future transportation. From the flying cars of the 1960s cartoon The Jetsons to Marty McFly’s plutonium…
How Self-Driving Vehicles and Ownership Are Shaping City and Suburban Life
Tweet The Wall Street Journal recently reported on how advances in transportation technology are contributing to bigger and more sprawling cities. The premise is simple: When you want to get somewhere, you summon a car from a…
