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| Subject: Ten years after Uber inaugurated a new era for Silicon Valley, we checked back in on 105 on-demand businesses. Fri Mar 08, 2019 6:13 pm | |
| In March 2009, Uber was born. Over the next few years, the company became not just a disruptive, controversial transportation company, but a model for dozens of venture-funded companies. Its name became a shorthand for this new kind of business: Uber for laundry; Uber for groceries; Uber for dog walking; Uber for (checks notes) cookies. Larger transformations swirled around—the gig economy, the on-demand economy—but the trend was most easily summed up by the way so many starry-eyed founders pitched their company: Uber for X.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/what-happened-uber-x-companies/584236/ |
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