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Curbside pickup and drive-through has been too easily dismissed. We don’t think cars are going anywhere and once people have made the investment in a car, pickups are more economical than deliveries. So speeding drive-through operations are likely a natural extension of warehouse and logistics automation that blurs the line with mobility.

In a recent interview on the Acquired podcast, Ben Thompson (author of Stratechery) shared this same finding from his personal experience:

“ The problem with a word-of-mouth business and exponential growth is people run out of people to talk to.  That’s the limiting factor. There’s a little bit of exponential with every new subscriber, because they

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It may be tempting to see the increase in adult roommates as some harbinger of “The Decline of X,” with the implicitly righteous variable standing for “the family,” “home ownership,” “economic stability,” “the middle class,” “a culture of commitment,” or any host of factors to which we’ve arbitrarily ascribed moral value. Such conclusions wouldn’t... See more

Opendoor closes with the seller quickly, makes repairs, and sells the home. Originally, it did this through agent partners, and increasingly, it’s bringing that process in-house.