# Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses competition within the ridesharing market

1 Faculty News June 1, 2017 ![Entrepreneur logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_033740.jpg?itok=QGgEe5Xk)>

Excerpt from [Entrepreneur](https://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/294846) -- "'Uber is good at a lot of things -- technology, global scaling -- but its weakness for years has been its relationship with its drivers,' says [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a professor at New York University and an expert on the sharing economy. 'That left open an opportunity for an entrant to differentiate themselves on that weakness.'"

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