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What Uber’s China Deal Says About the Limits of Platforms

Harvard Business Review

One specific manifestation of the interest in platforms has to do with the notion that, as a business model, they represent a silver bullet for all the time and treasure that globalization takes. The $1 billion burn rate in China was reportedly holding up its IPO, not just its expansion in other parts of the world.