# Professor Robert Salomon explains why Uber ultimately did not succeed in beating its competitors in China

1 Faculty News August 23, 2016 ![Xinhua logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030505.jpg?itok=6NqP0rMN)>

Excerpt from [Xinhua](http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-08/23/c_135625342.htm) -- "'The customers are very very different,' says [Salomon](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-salomon). 'They have different cultural tastes and preferences, and the way to consume the products, the products they want are not the same with the products western consumers want.'"

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