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Originally Posted by adios
Uber IP, how much is it worth in a stock market where valuations are very high and companies buyout other companies with their own stock? I'm not sure but it has to be worth something.
Honestly if we're ever talking about Uber in terms of their IP and that sort of this, then things are bad. Lots of tiny companies have things like functioning routing tech and it's not as if rideshare customers are accounts that you can absorb as easily as buying up, say, a convenience store chain.
That's not to say there's not IP value in there, I'm just struggling to see a lot of it, basically the same throughout that industry - do they own any significant patents or what? There doesn't appear to be anything that restricts other companies from doing the same thing the same basic way. Maybe some R&D work toward the self-driving thing but then again they're not building the cars.
I guess for me the question is, if Uber announced they were shutting down today, what would be the must-get pieces that Lyft or someone else would pay a sizable amount of money for, besides maybe the Uber name?