# Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses the impact of Benchmark's lawsuit against Uber on the company

1 Faculty News August 11, 2017 ![Bloomberg logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloomberg192x144.jpg?itok=yV529lwz)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-11/uber-investor-declares-a-state-of-emergency) -- "'It puts the company in limbo and prevents them from moving forward,' said [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a New York University professor and author of The Sharing Economy. 'This kind of fight is going to hurt Uber significantly in the short term.'"

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