Company

Uber

Type: public
Ticker: UBER · NYSE
Market value: $180B

Uber is public, listed as UBER on NYSE, in Transport and mobility.

What it sells: Uber rides, Uber Eats, Uber Teen accounts, Uber Health.

In the language of this map it serves 4 solutions — Ride-hailing, Food delivery apps, Driver's licence and teen driving and Senior transport services — which between them relieve 4 human frictions.

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Sells

Ride-hailingEarly adulthood
Food delivery appsEarly adulthood
Driver's licence and teen drivingAdolescence
Senior transport servicesRetirement

Human frictions it ultimately relieves

Reached through the solutions above, never directly.

Get to work without a parent's carEarly adulthood
Get around without a parent drivingAdolescence
Driving becomes unsafe but is the only way out of the houseRetirement
Feed yourself for the first time, with no time and no skillEarly adulthood

Trends favouring it

Autonomous vehiclesCompounding now. Evidence is visible in company results and data.
Gig, fractional, and portfolio workAlready large; the question is how it resolves, not whether it happens.

Trends pressuring it

Union revival and rising wage floorsDirection genuinely disputed. Reasonable people expect opposite outcomes.