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VIDEO: Batman in Lamborghini Batmobile!

YouTube prankster Josh Paler Lin decides to prank some Uber users waiting for their ride. Watch how people react when he pulls up in a black Lamborghini, dressed like batman, while they’re expecting a Toyota Prius!

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If you are not familiar with Josh’s work, here’s some information on him provided by Famous Birthdays.

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Known as the crazy Asian prankster on YouTube, he has accumulated more than 2.4 million subscribers.

He was a background dancer for music videos, including the video for “Teach Me How to Dougie.”

He is an aspiring actor and entrepreneur and loves entertainment and the technology industry. His “How Does a Homeless Man Spend $100?” video was viewed more than 30 million times in less than 3 weeks.

Born in Taiwan, he spent a couple of childhood years in Moscow, Russia, and came to the US by himself at the age of 17. He has one younger sister who is 11 years younger than him.

He created a video called “Neymar Jr. Picking Up Girls (World Cup Prank)” in June of 2014.

To enrich your knowledge, here is some information on the history of everyone’s favorite car service, provided by Wikipedia.

Uber was founded in 2009 as UberCab by Garrett Camp, the cofounder of StumbleUpon, actor Ashton Kutcher, and Travis Kalanick, who had sold his Red Swoosh startup for $19 million in 2007.
Kalanick joined Camp and gives him “full credit for the idea” of Uber.

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On New Year’s Eve, Camp spent $800 hiring a private driver with friends and had been mulling over ways to decrease the cost of black car services ever since. He realized that sharing the cost with people could make it affordable, and his idea morphed into Uber. “Garrett is the guy who invented that shit,” Kalanick said at an early Uber event in San Francisco.

The first prototype was built by Camp, and his friends, Oscar Salazar and Conrad Whelan, with Kalanick being brought on as a “mega advisor” to the company.

Following a beta launch in May 2010, Uber’s services and mobile app officially launched in San Francisco in 2011. Originally, the application only allowed users to hail a black luxury car and the price was 1.5 times that of a taxi.

In February 2010, Ryan Graves became the first Uber employee, getting the job by responding to a tweet from Kalanick announcing the job opening, and receiving 5-10% of the company. Graves started out as general manager and shortly after the launch was named as CEO. After ten months Kalanick succeeded Graves as CEO in December 2010. Graves stepped down to become the company’s COO.

In 2011, the company changed its name from UberCab to Uber.

During the initial development of the Uber app, the company created a think tank consisting of a nuclear physicist, a computational neuroscientist, and a machinery expert who worked on predicting demand for private hire car drivers and where demand is highest.

In July 2012, the company introduced uberX, a service option which allows anyone to drive for Uber using their own car, subject to a background check and car requirements. By early 2013, the service was operating in 35 cities.

Joanna Grey

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