Ubers archrival, lyft. The billionaire investor added 100 million, and one of the investors employees will do join the board. Uber is valued at a little over 2. 5 billion. Then there is the reach, 250 cities worldwide. For more on what this investment means come i want to bring in leslie picker, Eric Newcomer is here as well as our editor at large, cory johnson. Corey graham i want to start with you because this is a different kind of investment for carl icahn. Why is carl icahn first of all investing in a private tech company, and why lyft over her . Cory lets think of all the reasons, one, he is wanted to make money. Carl icahn has been a moneymaker but a Company Builder not by any stretch of the imagination. He likes to look at what he thinks can be better that he can make money. 30 years ago, 30 years ago, he has borrowed money to help michael milk milken and Verna Lambert to help one of the corporate raiders taking over twa, and they broke up little pieces, selling it off. The com