Uber's founders outsourced early coding and hired Ryan Graves via Twitter
Shaan Puri · How Successful Startups Got Their First 1000 Customers (Uber, Product Hunt & More) (#362) · Sep 15, 2022 · at 16:19
Sean Puri explains how Uber broke fundamental Silicon Valley rules by outsourcing development and delegating leadership.
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“The Uber founders, Travis and Garrett, they didn't work on it full time. Uber was not a project they were willing to do. They just literally tweeted out, Hey, we need a general manager. And random guy named Ryan Graves was like, I'm a hustler. I'll do it. And they're like, all right, cool. It's like, they literally like delegated the CEO job. Then did they have a super strong technical team, technical co-founder who could write the code and do this in house? Nope. Use the third party dev shop to build the first version of the app. They outsource the coding.”
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