Isn&#x27;t the bigger difference with Uber that it&#x27;s a service that many people need multiple times a week and everybody needs sometimes, and the average transaction value is a fair bit higher? Sure, Uber obtains an advantage from flaunts more laws than even the most aggressive copyright&#x2F;TOS-violating marketer advertising themselves on Fiverr, but even law-abiding fully-licensed taxi firms have tended to be profitable.<p>There are possibly more lucrative areas of the market for Fiverr to explore, but Amazon is an unusually savvy and price-competitive 800b gorilla in the Mechanical Turk space, and I&#x27;m not sure how helpful the Fiverr brand is in the Upwork space. They already own their own space, it just isn&#x27;t necessarily as big as a dubious claim like &quot;the gig economy workforce expected to hit 43 percent of the total workforce by 2020&quot; might suggest. If they&#x27;re doing 1m transactions per month (&gt;$1m revenue per month) as claimed in the article I&#x27;d have thought the reliable route to profitability lay with trimming expenditure rather than doubling down...