The Upstarts¶
Stone. (2017). The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World. Little, Brown.
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- Uber (founded 2009) and its peers launched into a substrate that had just assembled: the iPhone (2007) put GPS-aware smartphones in millions of pockets, mobile payment rails matured, digital maps became free and precise, and the post-2008 labor market supplied willing drivers
This sourceStone's history of Uber and Airbnb, whose 'nonstarters' chapter on SeamlessWeb, Taxi Magic, Cabulous, Couchsurfing and Zimride documents the app-summoned car services that failed before the smartphone substrate assembled; the individual enabling conditions listed here are not itemised as his claims.
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- Uber (founded 2009) and its peers launched into a substrate that had just assembled: the iPhone (2007) put GPS-aware smartphones in millions of pockets, mobile payment rails matured, digital maps became free and precise, and the post-2008 labor market supplied willing drivers
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