The more I hear about Uber, the more it seems to be a tea-party style paranoid right-wing anti big evil government organization instead of a disruptive start-up.
This kind of thing might fly in the US, but in most of Western Europe we take a slightly more nuanced view to the role of government regulation.
Doesn't mean there isn't anything worth disrupting, hell no (somebody please disrupt the Amsterdam taxi market), but in cultures where simply sitting down and figuring out how to remove the obstacles is the custom, hyperbolic scream fests by an American company is not going to work.
Especially not an American company that thinks it's a good idea to conquer Europe with a name like "Uber"...
Both the company name and their PR strategy scream "culturally insensitive American douchebags".
This kind of thing might fly in the US, but in most of Western Europe we take a slightly more nuanced view to the role of government regulation.
Doesn't mean there isn't anything worth disrupting, hell no (somebody please disrupt the Amsterdam taxi market), but in cultures where simply sitting down and figuring out how to remove the obstacles is the custom, hyperbolic scream fests by an American company is not going to work.
Especially not an American company that thinks it's a good idea to conquer Europe with a name like "Uber"...
Both the company name and their PR strategy scream "culturally insensitive American douchebags".