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Based on the pricing model data, BuzzFeed determined that gas, insurance, and other costs of doing business amounted to about 22% of full-time drivers’ gross pay in Denver, 24% in Houston, and 31% in Detroit.
Sarah Kessler • Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work
Ev Randle
@evrandle
These new elements I think I can without significant loss reduce to four: installment selling, the used-car trade-in, the closed body, and the annual model. (I would add improved roads if I were to take into account the environment of the automobile.)
Alfred P Sloan Jr. • My Years With General Motors
jeff miller
@mjmille7
welcome give-and-take on key results from frontline contributors.
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
To set the scene, let me divide the history of the automobile, from a commercial standpoint, into three periods. There was the period before 1908, which with its expensive cars was entirely that of a class market; then the period from 1908 to the mid-twenties, which was dominantly that of a mass market, ruled by Ford and his concept of basic transp
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