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They are active in more than 600 cities. Even assuming tech support, design, engineering and R&D staff are negligible, 20 employees per city seems to make sense
by hboon 9y ago
They are active in more than 600 cities. Even assuming tech support, design, engineering and R&D staff are negligible, 20 employees per city seems to make sense. Partnership, Marketing, legal, operations, vehicle rentals.
Their software might scale and business model replicable across many cities, but they still need people on the ground running.
- dandare 9y agoAll those cities are located in less than 100 states. What are those people on the ground doing?
- robbiemitchell 9y agoYou need people on the ground to recruit and hire drivers, hand out ride incentives (especially on campuses), manage out-of-home advertising and local events, manage the in-city staff... It's easy to think everything is handled online via digital advertising, but ops-heavy businesses like this require bodies on the ground.