This is a really interesting model that has been tried a couple times in venture. Probably most notable is Upside (https://www.upsidevc.com). Curious to get your thoughts on them + why you decided to go the founder exchange approach as opposed to raising a fund?
The opposite is the modern reformation of Say’s law. Supply creates demand, there’s a market clearing price for any quantity. (Cf. Sowell). Sort of a fig leaf of theory to promote supply-side economics.
The two must be interlinked but one person has an idea of a product that doesn’t yet exist, and the creation of the product creates demand. The other has the idea that demand causes suppliers to produce.
Build it and they will come. Another aphorism. Not generally true.
Car sharing is a great idea. The economics are difficult to convey to customers. Keeping enough vehicles in enough places to make it a reasonable facility is difficult, but required to make people see the value. It’s also very hard to convince people to go carless in their current life.
Seems tautological, especially for a platform biz. Companies that don't "aggregate demand" fail because "aggregating demand" is just a fancy way of saying "have a critical mass of customers". It's tautological because companies that "succeed" by aggregating supply eventually also aggregate demand because... well, because companies without customers don't "succeed". So, if you "succeed", you've aggregated demand, regardless of whether you were able to aggregate demand by aggregating supply. Teasing out the causality is hard, but it'll always be possible to post-facto confirm the hypothesis that successful (platform) companies aggregate demand.
The substantive conjecture behind his tautology is about the economics and business model of SDC-as-ridesharing. Seems like a moot point to me. A working SDC will be enormously profitable regardless of whether the company that builds it gets to own the platform. Plus, the big auto cos might be able to afford to not win the SDC race, but they certainly can't afford to not even play the game. A lot of the money spent on SDCs is seen as hedging, not as serious plays.
the difference is that in contrast to digital roads, analogue roads are notoriously limited in growth.
The transport sector does not scale in the way a digital product does, for a multitude of very obvious reasons. Simply put, it's mostly not really a technological product.
If you want to do something about climate change, consider working at a company fighting some aspect of it, whether it be wind energy, carbon removal, electric vehicles or something else.
We started Dolphin (http://withdolphin.com/) to create an easy way for people to find impactful jobs tackling climate change. Hope it's helpful to anyone considering a career shift.
Agree with the others. I'm looking for a job now and wanted to check this out, but downloading an app for it is simply a no go. Even if I had the storage available in my phone, which I don't. I'm sure there's many others with this same opinion but you just aren't aware because you can't see the number of upvotes on the comments, which lead me to comment too.
I don't mind installing an app and I don't really understand why people object to it. Apps uninstall even easier than they install, at least on an iPhone.
That said...
- You don't need to know the name of my college to serve me some job listings.
- I double majored in STEM and humanities, but your app will only let me specify one or the other area of concentration.
- You also don't need to know what year I graduated college. In fact it may not be legal to ask as it can be used as a proxy for age, which is protected under equal employment regs.
Why do you assume only young people starts college? Graduation year and school name are sometimes needed for verifying the accreditation status of accredited programs such as law.
Does anybody even use apps in 2020 anymore? I understand that games, camera, music, maybe something else requires an app. But why make people to install an app for what is obviously a website?
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We're looking for talented software engineering interns for Spring/Summer 2020. An ideal candidate will have experience with front-end frameworks (e.g. Angular) and backend technology (Flask, node/express) for building robust APIs. Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS is a plus.
This internship is a unique opportunity to gain extensive real-world software development experience and work directly with our CTO. You’ll be building out parts of the Dolphin web app, which will help others find high-impact jobs and internships.
This role is great for self-starters who want to help fight the major issues facing society today and excel in fast-paced environments. We believe that the highest-leverage thing to do right now is to connect talented people to roles tackling major problems they care about. Hopefully you will play a pivotal part in helping us achieve this mission.
Please email me at george@splashwithdolphin.com if you're interested in applying/learning more.
Dolphin helps you find high-impact, high-paying jobs/internships solving problems you care about. We recommend work at 6000+ vetted organizations tackling pressing issues such as: climate change, poverty reduction, education, healthcare, cities/urban mobility, space exploration, and protecting civil liberties.
We're looking for talented software engineering interns for Spring/Summer 2020. An ideal candidate will have experience with front-end frameworks (e.g. Angular) and backend technology (Flask, node/express) for building robust APIs. Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS is a plus.
This internship is a unique opportunity to gain extensive real-world software development experience and work directly with our CTO. You’ll be building out parts of the Dolphin web app, which will help others find high-impact jobs and internships.
This role is great for self-starters who want to help fight the major issues facing society today and excel in fast-paced environments. We believe that the highest-leverage thing to do right now is to connect talented people to roles tackling major problems they care about. Hopefully you will play a pivotal part in helping us achieve this mission.
Please email me at george@splashwithdolphin.com if you're interested in applying/learning more.
Been working on a project to help people find high-impact jobs tackling problems they care about (ie. climate change, healthcare, etc), and we'll have filters for part-time and remote when we launch next month: https://www.splashwithdolphin.com.
The notion that meaningful work is inversely correlated with pay is one of the most detrimental myths that prevent smart people from even starting to look for high-impact companies and roles. It's a convenient but weak excuse.
There's thousands of other companies we've vetted for Dolphin, a jobs app to find high-impact, high-paying work tackling everything from climate change to healthcare reform. We're still building out the MVP but feel free to stay updated at https://www.splashwithdolphin.com.
> The notion that meaningful work is inversely correlated with pay is one of the most detrimental myths that prevent smart people from even starting to look for high-impact companies and roles. It's a convenient but weak excuse.
"Meaningful work" does not mean soving social problems (as all your examples in some sense do). I know lots of great mathematicians and physicists who would find it magnitudes more meaningful to solve problems from their respective area, but could neither get a job in academia nor there exist companies where you can work on such questions.
IMO the highest leverage thing to do right now to fix the environment is connecting the most talented people with careers at organizations directly tackling parts of the environmental crisis. Individual efforts can help, but all major advancements in human history have come through a coordinated group of people advancing a common cause. In our day and age, these are the corporations and nonprofits.
Similarly, the effectiveness of volunteering is also limited because of how hard it is to do work for free for a long period of time. The moment something becomes hard is the moment an effort starts getting valuable, and also the moment when volunteers start dropping.
Given all this, I'm currently working on Dolphin (https://www.splashwithdolphin.com/), which connects people with careers at high-impact companies tackling problems they care about. Climate change is #1 on the list of pressing issues. Happy to chat more about this at george@splashwithdolphin.com.
We're building a jobs board for this right now at https://www.splashwithdolphin.com. About to release a beta soon, sign up to stay updated if you're interested :)
