Who can guess what this is? It shows where drivers drove, but this is in fact a network of people. It’s a community that’s changing transportation.
In marketplace businesses, community is automatically created
This is the first lesson – recognize that if you run a marketplace, you have a community because you have two parties interacting. This can be very powerful, and we’ll see why.
Let’s look into why communities are powerful for your business. This is Stephen.
Communities have REACH that is exponential beyond what you could do on your own.
Early seeds of community helped us scale
This is where it all started.
I started out as a launcher
They wanted to make Zimride more instant.
Go any place at any time
The challenge we are facing is how to manage and grow a fedex fleet.
It’s like a fedex fleet where people are having conversations.
This community has helped us grow immensley
Early days of lift. People sitting on floor, on mustaches
Now we have a mentor program. We started doing the same for recruiting
Carpooling
Same thing for recruiting
Photo of some of the first recruiters doing recruiting.
We now send all of our leads through that system.
Same thing for launch. We used to launch cities ourselves. Large mustache cakes
Drummers
And crazy celebrations, but launching cities in this way was way too slow. So instead, we let drivers even launch our cities.
Talk about how drivers launched 24 cities
Talk about how drivers launched 24 cities
Don’t be afraid to rely on your community. They want to help.