優步在發達國家市場盈利 將在中國繼續加大投入

Uber's CEO Travis Kalanick says the company is profitable in its developed markets even beyond the US, but those profits are being immediately reinvested in winning the war in China.

優步公司的首席執行官特拉維斯·卡拉尼克日前表示，公司在美國之外的發達國家市場是盈利的，可爲了贏下中國市場的“戰爭”，這部分收益馬上又投入了進去。

In an interview with the Financial Times, Kalanick said the company is making money in North America, Australia, and its EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) region. "Profitable" in this case means Uber is taking into account all general and administrative costs, but excludes interest and tax.

卡拉尼克在接受英國《金融時報》的採訪時表示，優步在北美、澳大利亞、歐洲、中東和非洲是掙錢的。而其所說的“盈利”是指把所有的管理和一般費用算了進去，還有扣除利息和稅收後的。

However, whatever "profits" Uber is generating is going right back into the unprofitable markets, notably, Asia.

但是優步的這部分“利潤”卻馬上投入到了賠錢的市場，其中尤以亞洲爲甚。

"We have hundreds of cities that are profitable globally," Kalanick told the FT. "That allows us to invest in new places, and to sustainably invest in a very expensive place like China."

卡拉尼克接受《金融時報》採訪時表示：“我們已在全球幾百個城市實現盈利。這使我們能夠在新的地方進行投資，並向類似中國這樣的高成本地區持續投資。”

Currently, Uber is stuck in second place in China, competing against an opponent that just finished a $7.3 billion fundraising round that included a $1 billion investment from Apple. While Uber is operating in 60 cities in China, Didi Chuxing is in more than 400. Of those, the Chinese company claims it's profitable in half.

目前，優步在中國的市場份額排在第二位，而其競爭對手剛剛完成了一輪價值73億美元的融資（這輪融資中蘋果投資了10億美元）。優步在全中國60座城市運營，而滴滴出行的這一數字則是400。這家中國的公司聲稱其在一半的城市盈利。

Still, Uber is spending heavily, having recently raised a $2 billion credit line and brought in $3.5 billion from an investment from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund. Much of that money will go into China.

優步仍在不斷燒錢，除了舉債20億美元外，還獲得了沙特主權財富基金一筆35億美元的投資。據悉，大部分資金將繼續投向中國市場。

"We are number two in China, which means that we still have a ways to go," Kalanick said. "But we are putting everything on the field."

卡拉尼克表示：“我們在中國只排在第二位，說明我們仍有很長的路要走。不過一切都在走入正軌。”