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I don't need to mention the terrible plight of our rideshare drivers and other gig-economy workers. Many have responded to assit drivers, including elected officials at all levels, and some who even started up local ridesharing companies that don't seem to be expanding nationally or globally. Launching a rideshare company is terribly difficult, and requires massive planning and preparation, and a small fortune to set up, and I ought to know. I'm Jeff, the founder, and have been working tirelessly with my exemptional co-founders these past many years developing a business model that will thrive in this market despite competing for a share of a market that is tenaciously guarded by billionaire giants.
Our goals are simple: We'll reforge the rideshare industry so that drivers can earn a respectable living on their own terms, and so that passengers will be thrilled by a service that they did not know can be so much better than it is.
A bit about our team:
Our co-founder Andrew is a Finance specialist whose focus of expertise in on managing funding for companies that are positioned for growth. He took his time, studied the numbers, and worked with me, sometimes through aggressive negitiations, until we developed a business model whose expenses are almost entirely variable, a model that protects driver earnings from greedy executives, a model that will enable us to procure future investment for growth while remaining a cooperative and ensuring 90% of fares to drivers who all remain completely independent. Finally, a service that will delight passengers and empowers communities.
Our co-founder Alex is among the very few elite engineers whose contributions impacted the entire computer-technology world. Formerly a senior executive contributor at cornerstone companies like Borland and Microsoft, he remains available to those who know of his reputation and require his immense expertise.
I'm a web applications engineer, and contributed to projects in Silicon Valley, California and various outfits on the East Coast. Many years ago I stepped away from employment to focus on community projects that align with my interests and values. Long ago I, too, drove some for both Uber and Lyft, and resonate with drivers on a very personal level. My most prominent [Gallup] personal strengths include Arranger, Maximizer, Futuristic, Activator and Positivity, a profile well-suited for a start-up leadership role, and am achingly ready to launch the best driver and passenger experience yet, and with it offer drivers and passengerson the rides of their lives!
Investors boast big, and we discovered first-hand that even those who profess to be dedicated to social concerns and community values refused to even hear our pitch. With investors steering away scared to take on the billionaire duopoly, and with an electorate that is simply unable to effectively wrestle corporate law and free enterprise, it remains painfully obvious that if we want better terms then we'll need to create it ourselves. Individually we cannot do much at all, yet collectively, together, we can accomplish that which no one has accomplished for us before: our very own national and eventually global rideshare, the way that we want it, and on our own terms!
Our rideshare vision encompasses drivers, passengers, and the safety and prosperity of our communities. Andrew, Alex and I are grateful for your trust, and will work together with you to restore drivers' pride, and so enhance and empower the members of our communities across the country.
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