Or, humans have always had to focus on their own self-preservation and only recently have we had the luxury to care for the past at the expense of the present.
Turo is a short term car rental marketplace. Fair is a flexible "long-term" car leasing service. They have two different business models and are serving two different problems.
Ostensibly true but what you wrote glosses over all of the interesting details because the services are not that black and white. I'm more interested in the areas where they overlap — the gray area between renting and leasing. Use cases like getting a car for a few days per month or just a month or two, where services like Zipcar are also competitors. Fair's marketing claims "pay as you go, walk away at any time" in the App Store description which suggests to me it is possible to "own" a car off Fair for a month or two.
You're correct, @tedmiston. With Fair, you can return your car anytime (with a 5 day notice). So, you could keep the car for 1mo, 7 weeks etc. Fair will pro-rate the last month. Fair probably doesn't make sense for folks who just need a car for a few days. Happy to field more questions here (or email me: username @fair.com)
By the way, with my referral code (SHAANR100) you can save $1,000 off the start payment until 10/31/17.
Yes but "talking to your customers" is universally applicable and valuable advice. One could argue that it's of even greater value if you're targeting a niche with only "a few customers" because you need to ensure you really deliver enough value to get them onside and paying a rate that ensures you generate a profit.
I think most small companies were talking with customers for long time. The challenging part of this advice is talking with your customers at scale and separating signal from noise.
To be fair that demographic has been traditionally served by the hawala system[1]. It's not obvious to me right now that they'd switch to BTC so easily; of course I could be wrong.
I'm long Bitcoin but those numbers should be taken with a grain of salt before using them to make a case for remittance and Bitcoin.
Some of the top receiving countries include France, Germany or Belgium (over $1000 per inhabitant) and the top sending countries include Luxembourg ($12B for a population of 575K).
So the numbers probably include cross-border workers. People living in France/Germany/Belgium but working in Luxembourg. Transferring euros within the SEPA region (for free) for at least $50B out of the $560B mentioned.
That's his point though, the early internet had many useful applications that where appealing to the mainstream. International money transfers are not a mainstream activity.
250 million people isn't mainstream? These are people sending money to their families on a monthly basis, and where current transfer fees can take the equivalent of a half day of work.
a highly regulated one too, crypto does not address the complexities of international monetary regulations. If the solution is to not abide by the existing regulations, it not going to be mainstream.
As jogjayr pointed out, the Hawala system has existed before and after formal regulations. Crypto alone might not represent a viable mainstream alternative, but it does have potential as one piece of a composite solution.
I don't know Kalanick, though I've read about how his brashness and "win at all costs" attitude was forged through his past startup failures[1]
If this is true then he is his own worst enemy, and I find it very sad when anyone - no matter how big a jerk you think they are - is trapped in a repeating pattern of negative and destructive behavior.
To be clear: I am not absolving him of his behavior, I'm just observing that the culture comes from the founder and his wounds run deep.
[1] Scour filed for bankruptcy, Red Swoosh was acquired after enormous struggles to keep the company afloat.
That probably depends on the narrative they're told and their propensity to believe it.
"Copy this Snapchat feature" vs "Stories are a new storytelling medium" vs. "We need to do this because Snap is a grave threat and Facebook's survival depends on your work" are all very different narratives to sell to the team.
And Essential is going to change that and get more market share than Samsung or even Apple?
Please.
There are tons of great choices of Android high-end devices available from Google itself, from LG, Xiaomi, Huawei, htc, even from OnePlus, you name it. Good to have onemore choice with Essential now.
