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Disclosure: I am on the B.D & partnerships team on Postmates. We haven't shifted focus away from restaurants. We have about 3000 Plus partners today of which a majority are restaur…

It really depends on the order distribution of distances for a specific store but on average its ~7 minutes from pickup to dropoff. Regarding difference in temperature, the coffee …

Actually, Postmates & Starbucks have been working on this partnership for a while now. We began operationally testing this in the last couple of months. As with all tests, there we…

We were optimizing for speed so didn't really shoot for optimizing costs as much. It cost us about $6.61 in material costs and $5.25 in laser cutting time.

Microsoft needs systemic changes. There may some truth in the fact that ballmer is to blame. But a new ceo will face the same challenges. Markets are irrational.

You may want to check out what Jobs had to say about this. See quote from 7:12PDT : http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006442-56.html The goal was to understand, if we are there y…

It is true that app quality has a lot to do with the experiment. I was surprised by how many of the problems could be solved if the apps upped their game. Hardware limitations were…

That would be a good analysis to do as a next step. The new Microsoft ads make it a point of highlighting that differentiation.

aaah Ok. Its easy to buy something but hard the switching effort and learning effort is higher so retention is lower. Interesting.

So one of the things interviewees mentioned is that there was a difference between "micro moments" and "full blown work". Writing a paper is full blown work that they know they can…

Yikes. Fixed the fonts to make it more readable.

Curious as to why would engagement and retention be low? As regard's pay per download models...looks like "Attach" business model's are becoming more popular. "Attach" means chargi…

Sorry, I should have added more references in that connected the dots better. A lot of capital and talent is flowing into solving the problem. Thus, we are likely to see some big s…

Yes. The keyboard problem is a big one. It was so painful that I had to buy a bluetooth keyboard just to work with my iPad. That's a hard one to solve until apple comes up with som…