Well before the ride-sharing giant dominated, it had a big local rival. This week, Victorian courts will hear explosive claims of how it killed the competition.
with furious Australian taxi drivers to the tune of $272 million in the Victorian Supreme Court last month, Andrew Campbell paid close attention.
If the trial succeeds, Campbell’s co-founder Ned Moorfield and GoCatch’s shareholders will receive financial compensation from a corporate confrontation that left them as a footnote in the history of the local technology scene.“We spent countless hours developing, launching and scaling the GoCatch app, and I am proud of the local tech start-up that we built,” Campbell tells“I was very excited to see where we could go with GoCatch. Uber set out to destroy that business.
“Amos is hacking competitive intel on GoCatch. They are the ‘Hailo’ of Sydney,” Rohrsheim allegedly wrote in a September 2012 email to Christopher Ballard, who oversaw Uber’s strategy for launching in new cities.Former taxi driver Nick Andrianakis , lead plaintiff in the class action against Uber, and lawyer Michael Donelly in Melbourne last month after the settlement was announced.In another email to Barreto, Rohrsheim allegedly described GoCatch as “the only app I am concerned about”.
He also boasts of using software tools personally to pull out phone numbers of GoCatch’s best-ranking drivers to poach them.about to anybody outside Uber. It’s kosher, but wouldn’t lookthat we can’t boast about,” Rohrsheim allegedly wrote to Sydney-based colleague Oscar Peppitt.do this myself. We now have all their phone numbers. Plan is to call them and say ‘You were referred to us as a great taxi driver. Would you like to join Uber?’” he allegedly wrote to Barreto.
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