Same-day delivery with the sharing economy
Marshall Hughes, co-founder and CEO of delivery start-up Passel, discusses the art of same-day delivery:
- Funding of delivery start-ups, including Passel
- Different delivery models (2:35)
- Crowd-sourcing
- Sharing economy
- Gig economy
- How companies such as Uber and Lyft are contributing to traffic congestion (5:28)
- Passel’s domestic expansion plans (7:10) and international expansion plans (7:58)
- Some of the challenges of expanding into other markets (8:45)
- Environmental considerations in the last mile (10:06)
- The same-day delivery market, including customers’ varying delivery expectations (12:35)
- Recruiting new delivery people (17:35)
- The technology behind on-demand same-day delivery (19:35)
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