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People spend $10B on taxis per year in the United States alone. Smartphone adoption is going to reach 100%. I think if you put those two together, you really can't pigeonhole this type of service as "just another Silicon Valley app."


* Build out the technology so that every existing cab service can license and whitelabel

* Build out the service so that Uber is the central dispatch to any ride option based on price - also playing into the whitelabel/building of tech

* Provide Uber a significant fund with which to seek M&As of existing taxi cos all over the place

* Provide an investment sizeable enough to serve as national/global free PR for the service, investment

* Provide an investment large enough to back a significant legal team that can take on any metro taxi service's bitching

* Provide an investment large enough to lobby the hell out of local/national representation




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