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I don't know. Both Wag and Rover have fund-raised $300M from investors. I would think they'd have responded to that line of questioning at least once.
by colmvp 7y ago
I don't know. Both Wag and Rover have fund-raised $300M from investors. I would think they'd have responded to that line of questioning at least once.
- ganeshkrishnan 7y agoIt's from SoftBank. It's raining funds from them atm
- bryanrasmussen 7y agothe answer would have to be that doing so would benefit the walker short term but over the long term would lead to them losing business because Wag would track the lost business and as such disqualify the walker from any more Wag business, thus walkers would not cheat on wag because wag would catch them doing it - probably by using something that they would call "machine learning" and "suspicious behavior tracking" that will also be "patent-able, someday"
- goldcd 7y agoThere's limited demand on both sides of this though. To take the Uber model - you are going to take n trips, in m cities, for y duration. Uber and their users want unlimited drivers, riders, cities piled into their app. Wag is completely different. Your dog is in your home. It needs walking say once a day. I'd have thought the user would want the same reliable person doing it each day - and the walker would ideally want to build a stable of local dogs that need walking each day. Once both sides are happy and stable, you don't need the app.
- Spooky23 7y agoThey probably waved it off. Since their solution is to sue their customers and affiliates in increments of $1,000, sounds like a pretty dumb business model.
- jacquesm 7y ago> I would think they'd have responded to that line of questioning at least once. Errm. You'd be surprised. Let's just leave it at that.