After almost a decade of disruption, Uber is finally a public company. The company is the highest valued tech IPO since Facebook and Alibaba, and it’s part of a wave of Silicon Valley “unicorns” to go public this year, including Airbnb, Zoom, and Slack. While today’s debut represents a new chapter for the money-losing, scandal-prone Uber, it also likely signals the end of an era of cheap rides for millions of drivers and riders across the globe.

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