I don't think it matters whether it was a human or program that entered the numbers in the quarterly report, what matters is that there weren't multiple other people proofreading it properly.
I'd have titled it "Lyft needs to proofread its quarterly reports".
Later on in the article, this typo on a trade is worse: "History’s pricey oopsies: ... Second place goes to Mizuho Securities, which in 2005 placed an order to sell 610,000 shares, for one yen apiece, in a company it was helping take public. It meant to sell one share for 610,000 yen. Whoops!"
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If I was a Lyft investor, I’d be a lot more worried about the incorrect information that nobody has noticed (yet).
I don't think it matters whether it was a human or program that entered the numbers in the quarterly report, what matters is that there weren't multiple other people proofreading it properly.
I'd have titled it "Lyft needs to proofread its quarterly reports".
Later on in the article, this typo on a trade is worse: "History’s pricey oopsies: ... Second place goes to Mizuho Securities, which in 2005 placed an order to sell 610,000 shares, for one yen apiece, in a company it was helping take public. It meant to sell one share for 610,000 yen. Whoops!"