Uber Credits Arbitrage
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A story about how Ryan Petersen cleverly used Google AdWords to get free Uber rides.
"I became Uber's best customer lifetime probably because I bought AdWords for the keyword 'uber promo' and put my own promo code there. I got like $10,000 in Uber credits by doing that. Then I treated Uber like it was free because it was free for me for a while. I've probably netted out to spending way too much on Uber as a result.
That was a good hack - I didn't come up with it, I copied it from a friend. I'm not sure it was even bad because I think I paid for Google's AdWords campaign for Uber. Eventually they shut it down, but it worked really well while it lasted."
[Note: This story was followed by Shaan sharing another story about someone in India who found a different Uber credits hack, but I kept to just Ryan's direct story as requested]
Ryan Petersen
Founder and CEO at Flexport, Partner at Founders Fund
Ryan Petersen is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Flexport, the platform for global logistics. Since founding Flexport in 2013, Ryan and his team have worked to make global trade so easy, there is more of it. Companies of all sizes--from emerging brands to Fortune 500s--use Flexport technology to move tens of billions of dollars worth of merchandise across 112 countries every year.