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		bpicolo on May 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Grubhub stock halted after report Uber is eyeing a... Selling to restaurants to convince them to onboard to your platform is a slow, expensive process that's neither easy nor guaranteed. GrubHub has acquired many other companies (e.g. Eat24) in the past purely for the relationships/business.

dehrmann on May 12, 2020 [–]

This. While Uber might also want to be a monopoly in this space, growing market share is a lot harder than buying it.

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