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Marketplace Scale to Cash

Reading Uber’s 2024 Economics

Learn how marketplace leaders distinguish Gross Bookings, revenue, operating income, adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow using Uber’s 2024 disclosures. Year ended December 31, 2024, compared with 2023; USD millions unless stated. Uber’s full-year results and Form 10-K were cross-checked. Gross Bookings, adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow use company definitions; take-rate calculations are independent proxies and not fee schedules.

What you will learn

  • Separate Gross Bookings from GAAP revenue.
  • Calculate take-rate proxies without calling them contractual fees.
  • Reconcile growth, operating profit and cash generation.
  • Identify nonrecurring effects in net income.
  • Compare Mobility, Delivery and Freight evidence.
  • Build a marketplace growth scorecard.

Syllabus

  1. 1Gross Bookings are not revenue11 min
  2. 2Read trips and transaction scale11 min
  3. 3Move from growth to operating profit11 min
  4. 4Treat net income carefully11 min
  5. 5Reconcile cash flow11 min
  6. 6Build a marketplace decision memo11 min
  7. CBusiness case: Business case0 min