90 million lines of code to .. call a cab?
Genuinely curious what's so much of business logic is for.
I was working on a Grab competitor, you would be surprised about the number of subsystems running there.
There are entire teams that are working on just internal services that connect some internal tools together.
There was also very little effectivity and efficiency in the era of cheap capital so there were tons of talent wasted on nonsense. Uber built their own slack for a while!! (before just going to mattermost)
People always ask who actually makes money on Uber... I think it's not the cab drivers, not the investors, who makes money is the programmers. It's a transfer of money from Saudis to programmers.
Well it was, anyway.
They are scam but not for money laundering. Just scam.