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🗓️ 31 August 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The Dozens weigh in on Uber! Analyst Simon Erickson sifts through listener's reactions to Uber's business prospects, which are now complicated by the fact that Google is testing a ride-sharing program in San Francisco. Plus we discuss Fitbit and our new daily feature for Amazon Echo owners.

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, August 31st.
0:03.4	Welcome to Market Foolery.
0:04.7	I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today for a million dollar portfolio and
0:07.8	supernova.
0:09.0	Simon Ericsson.
0:10.0	Happy last day of August.
0:12.1	Ooh, what a milestone, Chris.
0:14.0	Summer's going out with a bang here in the D.C. area.
0:18.0	Yes, which means it's going to start getting cold again very soon, I believe.
0:21.0	Yeah, no, it not not soon not soon. Last time you were in the
0:25.7	studio we talked about Uber and we put the word out to our listeners or
0:30.2	dozens of listeners saying hey if you have thoughts on Uber, drop us an email,
0:35.2	marketfullreadfool.com is our email address and once again proof that our listeners
0:39.9	just rock.
0:40.9	Our listeners are amazing.
0:41.9	We got a bunch of email reacting to the business of
0:45.9	Uber and so we're going to get to some of those and I think last week what we were talking
0:51.7	about was this challenge essentially to Uber as the next great public company
1:02.1	as we start to get more numbers out of Uber
1:04.9	and we find out that in the first half of 2016,
1:07.4	they lost over a billion dollars.
1:09.8	And so it's like, wait a minute, is it worth worth 66 billion dollars as some have said and this was
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