# Professor Arun Sundararajan provides perspective on the tech industry’s current investment environment, and in particular what impact if any, Uber’s demise would have

1 Faculty News March 22, 2017 ![The Atlantic logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031336.jpg?itok=T4ciY3Gl)>

Excerpt from [The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/03/uber/520302/) -- "'By now, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that the issues that are putting Uber in the news frequently don’t have much to do with either its business model or its identity as a tech company,' [Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan) said. 'If there is a serious reduction in Uber’s value over the next year, the lesson that people will take away is one of better corporate governance for early-stage tech companies—so that, as they get into a later stage, they are not in a position where the tradeoffs they made early-on ended up being more harmful than good.'"

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