This is global and strategic: What Amazon's mega investment in Deliveroo means for Uber and everyone else

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Amazon is not suddenly interested in pizza delivery after its investment in Deliveroo.

Here's why:For years, founder and CEO Will Shu has considered taking his company public. It was worth $2 billion privately before the Amazon deal. It is probably worth north of $4 billion now.

He will come under pressure to show investors returns, of course — at some point a company can take in so much investment money that it becomes mathematically difficult to return a multiple via the public markets. But now he has options.No IPO is probably good given Uber and Lyft's rocking offerings

 

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