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It's cool that YC has produced enough services to allow you to do this sort of thing. One thing that I found interesting were the gaps in the trip. The most ec
by seanmccann 14y ago
It's cool that YC has produced enough services to allow you to do this sort of thing.
One thing that I found interesting were the gaps in the trip. The most economically "important" pieces were skipped over. Things like the airline service, fuel consumption, and potentially more innovative ground transportation. The companies that made products and services that "actually" got you to Mountain View and back.
It will be interesting to see if YC can produce companies that start to close these gaps.
- zmitri 14y agoDefinitely true. It's pretty cool to think back and imagine gas companies, airlines, or basically anything that has now been commoditized on an industrial scale and imagine them being built as a two or three person team. I'd love to read a book on it, although I wouldn't be surprised if most of them were started by wealthy land owners or government sponsored undertakings in the first place. That other private bus line article on the front page looks interesting.
- SandersAK 14y agoI like this. I think most of the innovations and value you see here are for the consumer which are still real values and, i think, real important, but I agree that there's an amazing amount of innovation to be had underneath or behind the scenes in a lot of industries... particularly transit / travel