{"id":12013,"date":"2026-05-01T10:26:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=12013"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:26:35","slug":"uber-wants-to-be-your-travel-agent-concierge-and-personal-shopper-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=12013","title":{"rendered":"Uber wants to be your travel agent, concierge, and personal shopper next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"content-chunk\">\n<p>The company that pulled onto the road nearly 16 years ago as UberCab increasingly seems less interested in driving than in what users do before and after summoning a ride through its app.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"content-chunk\">\n<p>The latest evidence of Uber\u2019s shift toward becoming a broader services platform came at its <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uber.com\/us\/en\/u\/go-get\/\">Go-Get event this week<\/a> in New York, where the company led with hotel keys instead of car keys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that Uber truly offers one service: We give you your time back,\u201d CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said at the start of the company\u2019s roughly 40-minute presentation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The features unveiled invited a new comparison for Uber, not to ride-hail rival Lyft, but to one of its corporate neighbors in San Francisco: Airbnb.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91535192\/uber-wants-to-be-your-travel-agent-concierge-and-personal-shopper-next\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company that pulled onto the road nearly 16 years ago as UberCab increasingly seems less interested in driving than in what users do before and after summoning a ride through its app. The latest evidence of Uber\u2019s shift toward becoming a broader services platform came at its Go-Get event this week in New York,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brand-spotlights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}