Justin Fox, Columnist

Uber Is Lobbying for All of Us

Remarkably, it's pressuring lawmakers on behalf of the public interest.

June 29, 2015 at 4:06 PM UTC

Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business, economics and other topics involving charts. A former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, he is author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”

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Uber has become a fearsome, relentless lobbying machine. That much is clear from Karen Weise’s remarkable account in the current Bloomberg Businessweek of how the company overcame taxi-industry opposition and pesky local laws to bring its on-demand drivers to Portland, Oregon.

Similar campaigns are in the works all over the country, and the world. From Weise’s article: