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Professor Arun Sundararajan on the political maneuvers of Uber

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Excerpt from Mashable -- "Arun Sundararajan, a professor of business at New York University, says several startups in the on-demand market, including Lyft and Airbnb, have ramped political efforts at an earlier stage precisely because these services largely operate offline and run up against local regulators earlier. 'They all developed political and government relation functions way, way earlier than the typical technology company,' he says. Even by that standard, however, Sundararajan notes that the political maneuvering of these other companies are 'not as brash and in your face as Uber.'"

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