Disrupting Japan: The Real Reason Uber is Failing in Japan
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Disrupting Japan: The Real Reason Uber is Failing in Japan launched on September 2, 2016 with 66 votes, #849 of 3,743 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
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Uber and Airbnb represent a new very kind of startup, one that could not have existed twenty years ago, and the very thing that make these companies so transformative in the United States ensures they will never succeed in Japan. You see...
This is a rather personal episode. There is no guest this time. It’s just you and me. Uber and, to a lesser extent, Airbnb are failing horribly in Japan. There have been quite a few articles that have tried to explain what this is, and most of those articles have focused on why the market conditions in Japan make it hard for those companies. There is certainly some truth to those articles, but they miss a larger and much more important factor about why these companies are struggling in Japan and in Asia in general. You see, Uber and Airbnb represent a new very kind of startup, one that could not have existed twenty years ago, and the reason has nothing to do with smartphones or cloud…from disruptingjapan.com
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