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Ahh, what you lose on every transaction you make up in volume. Got it!

• arcticbull 7y ago
  What you lose on transactions today you make up on transactions in the future, when the volume reduces your cost basis to the point of profitability :)
  • baddox 7y ago
    It’s not clear how that would ever happen with last-mile delivery, unless we’re talking about something like drones or self-driving cars, and of course, those problems seem like they would be better solved by drone companies and self-driving car companies.
• lwansbrough 7y ago
  Except what every startup in Silicon Valley doesn’t seem to realize is there’s a revolving door of VC funded “businesses” that fail because they can’t make a profit after 10 years. And if they try to make a profit (for example by raising prices) users move on to the new cheap option.
  • kohtatsu 7y ago
    I don't think it's the startups that don't realize, rather the stock market that slurps up the IPOs and fuel it.
• darawk 7y ago
  No reason to complain when you're the one picking up the unit loss, though. Might as well take it while you can.
  • jiofih 7y ago
    Unless you care about not fucking over your fellow citizens to get free food deliveries?
    • darawk 7y ago
      If I offer you $2 to deliver a piece of food, have I fucked you over? Where exactly in the pipeline does the "fucking over" happen?
      • jiofih 7y ago
        In the part where I have to deliver it 10km away ($3 in gas round way), and if I reject your kind offer you’ll blacklist me from ever being offered a job again?
        • darawk 7y ago
          Ok, so prior to this offer, you had no jobs. And after this offer, you have no jobs. How have you been fucked over?