# Professor Arun Sundararajan comments on Uber's monetary ties to the Saudi Arabian government

1 Faculty News November 6, 2018 ![Chicago Tribune logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_036769.gif?itok=8DjrVWuj)>

Excerpt from [Chicago Tribune](https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-uber-saudi-financing-20181106-story.html) -- “'There was a general perception that they would take money from anyone,' said Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University’s business school who wrote a book titled “The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism.”

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