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Tudor Bosman
When I was working at Google, I wanted to build (essentially) Uber. I asked some friends and got shot down because "you'll be in regulatory hell forever, taxi companies have monopolies, cities won't let you get away with it". I was disillusioned and gave up.
August 14
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Jérôme, Adewale Oshineye, Yasin Müderrisoğlu and 8 other people liked this
They weren't necessarily wrong. I think the economic collapse has kind of smoothed over some of the bureaucratic protectionism when it comes to this kind of market disruption.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
I think Uber is working in CA because limousine service is state-licensed instead of city-licensed. But I wouldn't be surprised if they don't run into problems soon anyways. The taxi companies are fighting the bandit cabs: http://www.laweekly.com/2012-07...
- Andrew C (✓)
Andrew, Uber is in most large metros, not just CA. Definitely a good place to have started though.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Yes, I already knew Uber is in more than just CA; I meant that its ability to operate in CA is due to being state-licensed.
- Andrew C (✓)
Sounds like a good idea to me.
- Larry Hosken
Andrew's LA Weekly link is incredible. So on the one hand, he only had to serve 8 days in jail out of his 150 day sentence. But on the other hand, he got sentenced to 150 days in jail for having an incompletely filled out form!
- Gabe