Not trolling here. They seem to be a taxi dispatcher with an app. Back in the days where independent taxi drivers were fitted with a radio, nobody called these dispatch companies "telecommunication companies". Why is it different for Uber? Does Starbucks qualify as a tech company because they have an app? I know talented SWEs at uber so I'm not questioning their competence but merely asking if they work for a tech company or a taxi dispatch company with an app. Let's keep this civil please.
no Uber is an operations company
Uber is an operations company. It succeeded because of ops and lawyers, not because of it's engineers. No impressive technology came out of it.
What about Uber ATG
it is a tech company. It provides a marketplace for drivers and riders. It does not employ the drivers, it merely provides the technology.
well if they realize their self driving car vision, then they would be both a tech company and an ops company. today, they're ops.
Isn't Google just an advertising company and Apple is just a phone company
If Uber can be classified as a tech company, so can Domino's with its apps, no click ordering, FB messenger ordering, and more.
And LinkedIn is what exactly? A website?
LinkedIn is a professional cloud company
Call Uber whatever you want, the technical challenges being tackled at Uber are more challenging than those tackled at Facebook by far. I say this because I have worked at both places. In that sense Uber is more of a tech company than Facebook is.
right cause Facebook is propped up entirely by it's operations
Your sarcastic comment is wrong in so many ways: you are insinuating 2 things which i dont agree with at all. One is that uber is Entirely propped up by it's operations. Which is not true. Uber with its whole ops team but minus the tech stack will be dead, not even paralyzed. Secondly, the core product of facebook is just a landing page showing posts of friends. If you think that this landing page is entirely what propped up facebook, then you are mistaken. The growth of facebook is a good case study is business schools and the product itself is not what made it grow. It was the growth strategies that they implemented.
Any company can be a tech company if it is willing to fork over millions (paper money included) for engineers.
This seems to be the only real definition πππ
Bits and Atoms
Just read the tech blog.
And Walmart mandated RFIDs on their products from suppliers and had a good blog post on this. Is Walmart a tech company like Google?! As tech will touch all companies, will we call all off them tech companies? Goldman Sachs has pretty smart engineers and cool tech. Do you think they are a tech company? Creating a taxi dispatch app is awesome at the scale you did it but I think you remain a massive global taxi dispatch app.
So your question was not a question really. You just wanted to affirm that it is not a tech company. I still suggest you to read the blog.