But Slate’s business, which started with service operations and later added technology, has been built with almost an opposite business philosophy as startups like courier service Postmates, grocery delivery service Instacart, cleaning service Handy, errand marketplace TaskRabbit, and the many other startups that embrace an Uber-like business model. While those “Uber for X” startups seek to distance themselves from the driving, cleaning, and delivering they facilitate, instead functioning only as a technology layer on top of other businesses, Slate fully believes that it is a cleaning and laundry company. “We’re not techies,” Zabludovsky says. “We’re cleaning 130, 140 houses every day.”

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Simple business model, you have the customers at heart, you make thier model. You provide good service, you get their money. No tech in this, it is a service business business, just more scaleable.