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> a commercial entity is sharing their data despite it being valuable to them What's their incentive to share?
by heymijo 7y ago
> a commercial entity is sharing their data despite it being valuable to them
What's their incentive to share?
- IanCal 7y agoThere's a few quick things that come to mind that may be possibilities: 1. If people use your dataset, they can do research into things relevant to you 2. Some people like working for companies that share data/code back with the community, helping hire & retain staff 3. Bits of publicity, either to potential engineers/researchers or others seeing lyft in a better light 4. Improvements in the domain, no matter where they come from, may be beneficial to your business
- heymijo 7y agoYour ideas pair well with what Austhrow743 said above. Self driving as a complementary endeavor so Lyft's core isn't jeopardized by releasing the data.
- austhrow743 7y agoLikely they see self-driving as a complement to their core business of vehicle-passenger matching rather than something they hope to profit from directly in a meaningful manner, in which case "commoditize your complement" applies. "A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus." https://www.gwern.net/Complement https://www.gwern.net/Complement
- heymijo 7y agoExcellent. Thank you
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