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Uber going Public but never made a profit !

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Uber Inc., the world's most valuable startup valued at more than $78 billion is heading towards at IOP in May this year.  Started out of a problem experienced by the founders Travis Kalanick and Garret Camp who didn't get a cab one night while heading towards their hotel. This led them to start Uber and disrupt the transportation industry with a simple idea of bringing onboard demand and supply on an app.  Present in more than 600 cities across the globe under the leadership of is founder Travis Kalanick who had to leave Uber in 2016 forced by its board and investors due to series of scandals that himself and the company had faced in various countries.  It took 9 months for Uber to find their leader in Dara Khosrowshahi who built Expedia into a global travel powerhouse. Until then Uber had sold their business in China, SEA, Russia to DiDi, Grab and Yandex due to the stiff competition, sold and became an investor in their business in respective countries.  Under Dara, U

Why AAFAT by MX Player was my one of the best shows I watched this year !

Times Internet's Rs 1000 crore acquisition took the OOT market by storm only to make people speculate why such a valuation for just a music player app. Little did anyone knew MX Player had a larger user base than any other music app. Times Internet which is a digital business group of Bennet and Coleman which operates media companies like Times of India, Economic Times, TrulyMadly(a dating site) are operated under this group. In order to retain its large userbase afloat, MX player didn't start to charge its content like Hotstar, Netflix, Prime Video, Eros Now and JioDigital. And opted for an ad-supported video streaming revenue model. One of the first shows launched after the acquisition was AAFAT - Hindi meaning a problem. But its the first letters of the name of words of its 5 leading ladies starred in this show. It's a story of an egoistic mom looking for a bride for her idiot son who was good for nothing but has a lot of confidence out of nothing. On ther other h