How is that even a point? They had 23 funding rounds according to Crunchbase where the same thing happened everytime, with today being the 24th.
You don't have to acknowledge any of those things, this is how finance works.
In this case Uber Inc exchanged illiquid stock for liquid dollars.
Why the semantical debate? Did the use of the word “make” really bother you? What about when there is dilution like in most funding rounds? Shares of equivalent value are literally made. In this IPO Im not sure if that happened with the sale to the underwriters or not.
This kind of asset exchange is what we are all trying to do, exchange one asset for a more liquid one, dollars. They succeeded in doing that to the tune of 8.1 billion usd. The same us dollars that give access to everything in the global financial system via wire transfer.