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It always seemed like they were buying them for their existing vendor contracts and already done legal legwork to operate a business that was actually illegally
by fishpen0 3y ago
It always seemed like they were buying them for their existing vendor contracts and already done legal legwork to operate a business that was actually illegally operating in MA (where it was founded) for years while they did all the lobbying to make it less illegal. Uber was probably keeping them around as a legal patsy incase they caught flack as they rolled out their internal atlernative.
Sucks for Bostonians though, another tech-ish company gone from the downtown roster
- scapecast 3y agoYes to the vendor contracts. The important piece of that vendor contract however was the integration with the point-of-sale system of each liquor shop. That's how Drizly knew what was on the shelf, and was able to sell inventory. Drizly was one of our customers at my earlier company where I learned about these integrations. The world of POS systems is highly fragmented and arcane - there's no one system. One asset that Drizly had developed was an integration platform that connected to any possible POS any of the liquor stores were using. No one else had done that. They just kept chipping away at it. Literally every sprint, they'd add more integrations. I believe the goal was 2 integrations per sprint. That includes data model, etc. to create the analytics downstream. That integration platform was almost something like a natural monopoly. Hard to replicate by another party.