However, as is apparent in tech companies with similar business models like Uber (), it takes massive amount of patient investments to build up operational presences, processes, and user base that are large enough to generate the flywheel effect.

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4596066-vroom-unfortunate-timing-disruptive-growth?source=feed_all_articles

Last year, a Federal Communications Commission document cited a 2018 report that said that China "maintains physical presences at Soviet-era intelligence facilities at Bejucal in what appears to be a signals intelligence collection operation."

Source: https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2023/06/25/china-caught-spying-on-the-us-again/