In the UK at least, Deliveroo is almost everywhere, and Uber Eats is more or less only in cities where Uber is a licensed minicab - which is most major metro areas, but not smaller towns and so on.
From that alone, I'd guess Deliveroo is by far the bigger player in this market, but Uber Eats possibly has a wider international market?
I think it's fair to say Just Eat is the major contender to Deliveroo over here. Based on the absolutely tragic UX alone, I doubt many people bother with Uber Eats
I'm so glad it is not just me. There are 2-3 restaurants that are only on UberEats. Every time I open it, I hate it. The Uber ride app was/is the pinnacle of good design; UberEats has extremely poor information architecture that makes using it painful.
Could Coinbase have done an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) to raise money for their investors and employees instead, where the coin tracks revenue or something?
That was attempted by many companies during the ICO craze a couple years ago. It took quite a while for the FTC to issue guidance on just how they expect such offerings to work and remain on the FTC’s good side. What they eventually came up with was useless. Basically, you could pre-sell coupons for service discounts. Pretty much anything else would get you in trouble. And, so we don’t hear so much about ICOs any more.
They would need to invent a whole new protocol and make sure the token value somehow stays up - which is independent from how much money they earn from fees.
Very crappy if you want to cancel after you forgot to get new audiobooks for a few months. You lose all your credit, and they don’t say that during the cancellation process. I gifted 6 months of payment to Audible just because they avoided to inform me about that.
That's rough but on the scale of company bad practices that leans more towards being an oversight than truly malicious. I'm not saying it's an oversight but it's not on the same level as making cancellation take 10 clicks or having only phone support or turning off features when you turn off auto-renew.
They also have a limit on the number of active credits you can have. I luckily found this out via someone else. But yea that part of Audible sucks massively. But I wouldn't be shocked if you emailed customer support they would just give you the credits, it's Amazon after all. Also, if you sign up and the system doesn't say you're eligble for a 30 free trial, customer support will give it to you. I found that one out when my payment method wouldn't work and I cheekily asked and they hooked me up.
FWIW last time I tried to cancel & still had credits, Audible did warn me I'd lose them if I cancelled (so I quickly used the credits before cancelling - thanks to their generous return policy, shouldn't be an issue if I change my mind about one of the books I chose hastily before cancelling)
With regards to the non-desktop workforce:
70% of the workforce doesn't sit behind a computer and thus really don't benefit from working from home in most cases and thus we are working on a few projects in that space.
We did a test project https://www.realwork.ai which is a tool for frontline workers built for the people in the field rather than the backoffice and allow them to communicate and mange the distributed physical work they do. We are currently looking at expanding that into more of a linkedin type of network combining the tool with the ability to find work or find workers to hire.
With regards to the educational space we are building a LMS built more like an API that allow learning institutions or organizations with the need for employee education, certificate or compliance to easily manage their students/employees education. While we offer things like video and course-building tools the idea is to allow for our customers to use the best tools for the job so ex. we support not just our own video platform but also zoom, MS teams etc.
And last but not least.
Because we built a whole video platform we are looking at another area which is live ecommerce such as the whole unboxing trend with things like collector cards as we know a few people in that space.
We are then working with founders or potential co-founders in those industries and try to see where we can find product market fit.
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