🚕 Lyft

that “delivers turnkey entrepreneurship to drivers across the country and around the world.”

Early Uber investor Bill Gurley laid out Uber’s strategy in his 2012 blog post “All Markets Are Not Created Equal.”

The right answers to “Why are you building this?” tend to be personal. Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp built Uber because they couldn’t get a cab in Paris at a technology conference.

The Ops team culture rewarded experimentation, and after ice cream came Uber Puppies, Uber Mariachi Band, Uber Health (for flu shots), Uber Lion Dance (to celebrate Chinese New Year!), and dozens of other variations from around the world. The Ops teams would “holidize” their efforts, aligning special dates with product features that promoted growth

Une autre conclusion s’impose : l’enthousiasme qu’ont suscité des projets pourtant très peu aboutis comme Arcade City ou LaZooz prouve qu’il y a une attente très forte, chez les consommateurs et les conducteurs, d’un service plus équitable. D’autres entrepreneurs sauront peut-être relever le défi avec plus d’acharnement, de sérieux et in fine, de s

Predating Uber, I had written and published nearly a thousand essays on topics like user growth, metrics, viral marketing—along the way, popularizing tech industry jargon like “growth hacking” and “viral loops.”