Uber Money, Uber Everything?

It’s clear that Uber, Lyft, Postmates, etc. have led to tremendous value creation, but that value has disproportionately accrued to executives, employees, and investors of those companies, rather than to the workers that enable these services to operate on a daily basis.

In so cyclical an industry as aviation, in which tiny changes in interest rates and fuel prices and macroeconomic conditions have a huge effect on the bottom line, VEP gave Borman a stunning management advantage. It turned his employees, in essence, into Eastern’s bankers, enabling him to borrow tens of millions of dollars from them—unsecured, not

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New models focus on wealth creation for participants, not just hourly payments or one-time transactions.