Single-family new house construction building permits: 1  2003: 20 buildings, average cost: $97,500. 2  2004: 42 buildings, average cost: $77,300. 3  2005: 35 buildings, average cost: $88,800. 4  2006: 8 buildings, average cost: $83,600. 5  2007: 15 buildings, average cost: $93,100. 6  2008: 20 buildings, average cost: $89,000.
Fortune has learned some early Uber shareholders did sell stock back to the company earlier this year, including at least one at around the aforementioned $135 per share price (which works out to a valuation just south of $4 billion).
In non-emergency situations, surge pricing of six to eight times the regular fare have cropped up in moments of extreme shortages. The highest multiple ever recorded was 50 times the regular fare, or $57 per minute, due to an apparent glitch in Uber's fares in Stockholm, Sweden, Business Insider reports.