This week, Uber is celebrating its fifth anniversary. Uber is the most amazing startup story of an era blanketed by amazing startup stories. But, like many tech companies, its rapid rise has not been without victims, including many Ethiopian taxi-driving immigrants in Portland. (Our bubble in the Valley is not only financial.)

+ “People are working through a loss. Reassessing their place in the world. Trying to figure out what happens next. For some, it’s shock, disbelief.” From PRI: Appalachia is being hammered by the fall of coal.