I prefer Gett for long commute. It gives you a firm quote so if your Uber/Lyft/Juno driver messed up enroute or there's a traffic, you don't pay the extra. From a user's perspective, this saves me money. I would take Gett to Barclay Center knowing Uber and Lyft would charge me high premium after game. Or trip from Manhattan back to Queens. There's also an option to make extra stop which is nice! Gett cars are the regular black SUV cars so much more comfortable.<p>This acquisition is nothing but acquiring users (although Junos has fewer drivers so fewer active users) and talents, as Gett itself can already do what Juno and other rider-service apps can do. I wonder if they will continue to run Juno as a standalone app like Seamless and Grubhub but share the same user database. I still wonder why Seamless and Grubhub can't shut down one of them, this seems like a marketing tactic than anything else, creating a diversion that there are other players in the market. Who knows, maybe there's tax advantage.
Juno pledged to give away 50% of the founding shares to drivers via RSUs over a 10 year period [0]. I wonder how units many were issued, if they had accelerated vesting upon an acquisition, and if so, what drivers actually got in the transaction.<p>[0]
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Over a period of ten years, we intend to distribute to drivers a number of RSUs that would give drivers the same ownership interest as our founders upon an IPO or sale assuming all such RSUs vest.
The headlines I see in Hebrew (both Gett and Juno's founders are Israelis) are somewhat more low-key: the undisclosed price tag is estimated at "few tens of millions", to be paid in shares of privately held Gett.
Been using Gett in NYC with excellent results. Car availability is hard to beat, even during peak hours and the special flat $10 rate in manhattan is quite the deal. Never tried Juno but will check it out.
Am I the only one that was wondering why the dialup ISP Juno.com was considered a rival to Uber? Guess it's a different Juno..<p>TIL Juno.com still offers dial-up for $15.95/mo. Gone are the days of free dial-up with obnoxious banner ads.
Instead of burning cash by subsidizing travels, Uber could have just bought some competitors but still... The only chance Uber has is becoming a monopoly, and I don't see how they can achieve it.
So I assume these must be rival alt-taxi companies, but I have never heard a whisper of their existence before this story.<p>Uber, despite the seemingly coordinated smear campaign, reigns supreme in this area.
Something about this headline interests me, along with the title that appears here on HN:<p>Article: "Gett in advanced talks to buy Juno for $250M as Uber rivals consolidate"<p>HN: "Ubser rivals consolidating: Gett to buy Juno for $250M"<p>I wonder if the HN headline is as-submitted or mod-ified.<p>The latter title leans much more on the Uber link, while TC's headline puts it at the end.<p>If we didn't have all of Uber scandal stuff going on, I wonder which title would've been submitted to HN:<p>"Uber rivals scrambling as Gett buys Juno for $250M", maybe?<p>Here's a fun query to run: Pull HN submissions and go back to the linked articles. Pull those headlines, and then remove ones too long for HN's length limit.<p>Of the remaining headlines, normalize and see how many HN posts modified the title in some way.