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Home cleaning services and food delivery are quite dissimilar. There is much more trust required of the former, and as a result, once you find someone who you l
by will_pseudonym 11y ago
Home cleaning services and food delivery are quite dissimilar. There is much more trust required of the former, and as a result, once you find someone who you like, you'd rather just keep using them.
On this same spectrum, an Uber-for-babysitters would fail even more spectacularly than HomeJoy.
- wpietri 11y agoThey are similar in that it's relatively easy to paper over negative gross margins and poor execution by throwing money at them.
- will_pseudonym 11y agoI see! We were discussing different attributes of those businesses. I was more going on the first principle of business, "What problem are we solving for the customer?" I don't have any opinions on the specific financials of any company. I was just saying the fundamentals of HomeJoy were completely wrong. Thanks for the discussion!