Then, you have a company like Uber, valued at $70 billion despite massive losses, and beleaguered by one scandal after another. In 2017 alone Uber has experienced a widely publicized boycott that led to an estimated half-a-million canceled accounts, high-profile allegations of sexual harassment and intellectual property theft, a leaked video showing its CEO cursing at an Uber driver, a blockbuster New York Times scoop detailing the company's secret program to trick law enforcement and multiple senior leaders either resigning or being forced out. "As someone trying to raise [venture capital] right now, I am very concerned that this is going to implode the entire industry," one person wrote in a forum on the technology-focused website Hacker News earlier this week. It's understandable that investors and entrepreneurs would be "watching this Uber situation unfold closely," as Mike Isaac, the New York Times reporter, put it in a tweet about the Hacker News post.