Uber CEO: We're Creating 50,000 New Jobs Per Month

Uber is having an uber impact on the global economy, at least according to the company's CEO.

Travis Kalanick, CEO and cofounder of Uber, revealed on Monday that there are "hundreds of thousands of partners" connected to Uber's platform and noted that the company is now creating 50,000 new jobs globally each month

The figures, announced during Kalanick's interview at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, were later confirmed to Mashable by an Uber rep. "At its current rate, the Uber platform is generating 50,000 new driver jobs around the world every month, up from 20,000 in May," the rep said in an email. Read more...

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