# Professor Arun Sundararajan comments on Uber's growth and customer data breach

1 Faculty News November 21, 2017 ![The Washington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031074.jpg?itok=f6OME_Rm)>

Excerpt from [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/11/21/uber-waits-a-year-to-reveal-massive-hack-of-customer-data/) -- "'They’ve enjoyed tremendous success, but it’s come at a significant cost,' said [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'It’s important that they don’t lose sight of the fact that there’s important work to be done to justify their extremely high valuation and the tremendous amount of private venture capital they’ve raised pre IPO.'"

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