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Re:Noam Chomsky – Startup Culture (2015) [video] by hef19898 on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @03:38AM (#28298973)
Uber is a glorified ride haling app, Taxi providers has similar stuff before that. Without exploiting their drives to the extent Uber does. Logistics is a well understood problem, the only company I could think of that made a impact in logistics is Flexport. And they didn't solve any real problem, they managed to build the latest global freight forwarder. Very impressive, but at the core this is nothing revolutionary.
Re:Noam Chomsky – Startup Culture (2015) [video] by dnh44 on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @04:37AM (#28299249)
We tried using Flexport a couple years ago and my impression was that they were a mediocre freight forwarder with a nice web app. They were also considerably more expensive. I have no idea how they are now; maybe we'll try again in a year or two.