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Professor Arun Sundararajan comments on Didi's acquisition of UberChina
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Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "'It's a truce, but it's also a victory for Didi and it's a smart victory for Uber,' said Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of business and the author of the book The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism. 'The only real existential threat that Uber faces is the fact that they are trying to win China, and they're burning a lot of money trying to gain market share in China in the face of a much larger and well-funded domestic competitor.' Sundararajan says that the deal takes China off the table, and, with it, the worries of many potential Uber investors."
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