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smells like bullshit

20k "jobs" / mo gives 240k jobs / year putting them in the top 20 largest private employers in the us [1] with just one year's claimed growth

edit: there may well have been a month where, for sufficiently lax definitions of "created" and "job" it is indeed true that "20,000 JOBS CREATED ON THE UBER PLATFORM EVERY MONTH" but I'm highly skeptical this claim is close to true in anything but the most generous sense

edit2: to their credit, they reported median income and not mean

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers_in_th...

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