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Curious why no one challenged them. The market has high locality, so you wouldn't even have to mount a nationwide delivery service. Pick a second-tier city, si
by prostoalex 5y ago
Curious why no one challenged them. The market has high locality, so you wouldn't even have to mount a nationwide delivery service.
Pick a second-tier city, sign up a dozen or so of popular restaurants, get a catchy domain like TulsaDelivers.com or SpokaneTakeout.com, and find some local driver partners.
Is the app loyalty that high at consumer level? Or would a localized delivery app still not make the margins to offer better terms to drivers?
- southerntofu 5y agoThere are people doing this, eg. coopcycle.org. But there's a few barriers: - people who are not from the neighborhood will be familiar with UberWhatever but not with your local platform (network effect) - local platforms can't get away from working regulations (and that's a good thing) so they need much higher margins than multinationals in order to respect the law - small local platforms need actual money/clients to grow, while multinationals like Uber get VC/whoever money "for free" to spend at a loss just to gain market traction in hope for future profit So it's like can you and a few neighbors fight with sticks against the tank of a well-funded invader? Sure, but the odds of success are not great. My best regards to worker coops worldwide who help make capitalism a nightmare of the past.