How to Build the Next Uber or Lyft
Is Duopoly the Final State?
5 min readDec 9, 2018
If I had to build a competitor to Uber and Lyft, I would focus on standardization. Can we standardize time estimates? Can we standardize the kind of car that picks you up? Can we standardize the driver? Can we standardize the fare? Version 1.0 of ride-hailing was taxis, and version 2.0 is currently the anti-taxi. But version 3.0 will be a return to taxis…