How Uber Enslaved a Generation of Drivers

Alan Trapulionis
Startup Stash
Published in
10 min readAug 5, 2022

--

Travis Kalanick, Uber co-founder and ex-CEO. Wikimedia Commons image.

When Uber first came out, it was little more than a regular taxi company.

They had a team of drivers. They had a fleet of cars. They also had big dreams of conquering San Francisco with their premium, on-demand rides.

San Francisco said no.

San Francisco told Uber that they had no business playing a taxi company without the proper permits…

--

--