Mac: Uber refuses API access to third-party price-comparison aggregators
Andrew Macdonald (Mac) · Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash · Aug 17, 2026 · at 48:58
Uber President Andrew Macdonald explains Uber's strategy of rejecting price-comparison aggregation platforms to preserve direct consumer relationships.
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“We've not participated historically in the aggregation apps where some, you know, somebody will come to us and pitch and say, hey, you know, give us APIs that give us real-time info on Every car, every Uber car in the network what the price of that ride is, whatever other characteristics you can feed us, and because we're going to build an app, and then we're also going to put Lyft in there, and we're going to put other providers in there, and then that'll be incremental business for you. I've been against that. I mean, I want to be the front end.”
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