Happy New Year, Uber may celebrate the billionth flight

Sources: 2oceansvibe.com

Uber taxi service at the end of the year decided to please the public with another number with a large number of zeros. However, this time it is not about finances. The number of trips made with the help of Uber has reached 1 billion. A start-up from San Francisco took five and a half years to accumulate its first billion orders.

According to the company, the billionth flight was made in London on the eve of the Christmas holidays. A billion-passenger passenger service named Marvin received a free trip during the year, which is equivalent to about 10 thousand pounds sterling ($ 13.5 thousand), writes TechCrunch.
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The next billion Uber trips will pick up much faster. The service can overcome the two billion mark already in 2016, experts say.

Currently, the cost of Uber is estimated at $ 62.5 billion, and the company will soon receive funding of $ 2.1 billion. After this round, the total amount of funding received over the years of the five-year company will be $ 12 billion.

The service is already available in 68 countries and 370 cities of the world. Uber is still the most expensive non-public IT company in the world.

For 2016, Uber is making ambitious plans to launch product delivery services, car sharing and even medical care. According to experts, Uber has the potential to work in several industries.

“The goal of Uber was and remains to be the most influential logistics company in the world, said Aaron Solomon, head of innovation in the team at MaRS's LegalX, which unites lawyers and technologists. “Everything that can be delivered, it will deliver.”

Solomon noted that the most important trump card of Uber is “extremely loyal fans and users of the service”.