Consumer-owned smartphones serve as zero-cost infrastructure for gig marketplaces
Sam Gerstenzhang · a16z Podcast | People Marketplaces Take On One of the Last Great E-Commerce Opportunities: Groceries · Jan 2, 2019 · at 3:56
Sam Gerstenzhang of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) explains how worker-owned mobile devices unlock logistics networks like DoorDash and Instacart.
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“The interesting part is that each of these drivers on DoorDash or Instacart or elsewhere, they bought a smartphone for themselves, play games or do other things, and now suddenly this becomes this tool that allows them to tap in to this network. And it allows them, you know, it's bring your own device, and that creates this marketplace.”
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