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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

Jahan Khanna, cofounder/CTO of Sidecar spoke of its origin: It was obvious that letting anyone sign up to a driver would be a big deal. However, a seismic shift soon occurred when rival app Sidecar innovated in recruiting unlicensed, normal people as drivers on their platform.

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

Bain Public was of tremendous support toward those objectives" Virgile Ollivier, CoFounder & CEO. Their product boosts the efficiency for mass transportation worldwide with an AI-based on-demand bus platform and predictive intelligence dashboard. They plan on balancing the transport of commuters/passengers for hundreds of cities.