{"id":6095,"date":"2015-12-06T10:16:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T03:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietbrands.vn\/en\/?p=6095"},"modified":"2015-12-06T10:16:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T03:16:04","slug":"uber-is-now-more-valuable-than-ford-gm-and-a-bunch-of-huge-public-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietbrands.vn\/en\/news-and-events\/uber-is-now-more-valuable-than-ford-gm-and-a-bunch-of-huge-public-companies.html","title":{"rendered":"Uber is now more valuable than Ford, GM, and a bunch of huge public companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uber is reportedly shopping itself to investors for another round of funding, and this time it&#8217;s seeking a valuation of $62.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>As this chart from Statista shows, that means Uber is now more valuable than the major U.S. car companies Ford and GM, more than media giants like Fox and Time-Warner Cable, and almost twice as much as eBay.<\/p>\n<p>This is despite the fact that Uber almost certainly loses money, and has a fraction of these companies&#8217; revenue.\u00a0Uber was expected to have net revenue of about $2 billion this year, compared with\u00a02014 revenues of almost $18 billion for eBay, $23 billion for Time-Warner, and $136 billion for Ford.<\/p>\n<p>But Uber is growing much faster than these companies, and that&#8217;s what private investors value most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber is reportedly shopping itself to investors for another round of funding, and this time it&#8217;s seeking a valuation of $62.5 billion. As this chart from Statista shows, that means Uber is now more valuable than the major U.S. car companies Ford and GM, more than media giants like Fox and Time-Warner Cable, and almost&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[81,82,80],"class_list":["post-6095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-events","tag-ford","tag-gm","tag-uber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietbrands.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietbrands.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietbrands.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietbrands.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietbrands.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietbrands.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietbrands.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietbrands.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietbrands.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietbrands.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}