Uber hasn’t had much to brag about lately. Its public image is in tatters, its CEO has resigned in disgrace, and hundreds of thousands of people have deleted the app. But despite almost daily evidence that the company is in free fall, the core product — Uber’s app — remains quite popular.
Today, the company announced a significant milestone: 5 billion trips completed worldwide. This comes a little less than a year after Uber said it had completed its 2 billionth trip, which means it took the company less than 365 days to double that figure — and then some.
Importantly it wasn’t one single trip that put them over the 5 billion mark, but 156 trips that started simultaneously at 7:29AM GMT on Saturday, May 20th. “These trips happened in...
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