Re/code Daily - Goodbye Sidecar, the Uber Rival You Probably Never Used

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•	Sidecar, a car service similar to Lyft and Uber but with a fraction of the user base of either of those companies, is shutting down. Its founder said so in a Medium post yesterday. The company raised $35 million from a group of investors that included Richard Branson and Union Square Ventures, and was looking around for a buyer in its last days. [Mark Bergen \| Re/code]
•	Palantir, the $20 billion data analysis startup with close ties to the Department of Defense, has a unique problem. It's making a lot of money and it doesn't want to go public anytime soon, but its executives, employees and investors want to cash in on their equity stakes. This means the market for secondary sales of Palantir stock could heat up dramatically. [Rolfe Winkler, Elizabeth Dwoskin and Susan Pulliam \| The Wall Street Journal]
•	Instacart is an online grocery delivery service valued at $2 billion. It's raised a lot of money very quickly in an industry where it's difficult to turn a big profit, which has turned a number of heads. Now there are some signs of trouble: The company has laid off a dozen in-house recruiters, anticipating a major slowdown in hiring for the year ahead. [Jason Del Rey \| Re/code]