Uber CEO says too early for IPO 'prom' as ride app unicorn is still 'an early high schooler'

Uber CEO says too early for IPO 'prom' as ride app unicorn is still 'an early high schooler'

A user scans for an available vehicle using the Uber app on an Apple Inc. iPhone 5 smartphone in this arranged photograph in London, U.K., on Friday, May 30, 2014. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

Travis Kalanick, the chief executive officer at Uber Technologies Inc., has a go-to metaphor that he deploys to duck a common question: When will Uber go public?

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