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đźš• Lyft
Today, Uber is a $140B company with more than 6 million drivers.
But in the early days, we had to overcome the same chicken and egg problem many startups face:
Without drivers ➡️ riders couldn’t get a car
And without riders ➡️drivers couldn’t make... See more
Scott Gorlickx.comTravis Kalanick started Uber as a hack to split a few private cars with his friends. Thefacebook.com was just a student directory written in PHP. Even Elon Musk started SpaceX with the goal of merely increasing NASA’s budget by pulling a PR stunt.
Daniel Gross • How To Decide What To Build
What if instead of a business model in which Uber investors stand to profit off the success of the platform, the drivers and riders profited as well?