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snir

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    Comment #38887261

    Sure thing! We hire primarily out of SF, NYC, and Seattle -- in-person has boosted our productivity and been a lot more fun for us! Transparently, we have made a few exceptions, an…

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    Comment #38887076

    Opportunistically chiming in :) I lead engineering here at Retool -- reach out to snir (at) retool if you're interested in learning more! We're hiring across several key roles, inc…

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    Comment #32271810

    Hi all, I'm Snir -- I lead engineering here at Retool. I wanted to follow up on the above. Solving the round trip problem David mentioned above involves multi-region for our entire…

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    Comment #7781145

    Sure, in some sense :) This model exists under a number of names: Pesero, Jittney, Monit Sherut (to name a few). That said, it's not just an app that we've built. It's a system tha…

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    Comment #7781054

    Absolutely :) There are lot of systems like this that we took as inspiration. See my comment below on how we formalized this type of transit, and built something that can make more…

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    Comment #7781023

    Lyft pairs one passenger (or equivalently, one party) to one driver. We've built a system which will actually take your route into consideration, and pair you with additional passe…

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    Comment #7393679

    Response has been really good (a subjective answer :)). For more objectivity, we've received ~40 leads for one CL post, and got about 10 leads in small little twitter campaign ($5 …

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    Comment #7393600

    We haven't, but that's a great idea. There are some limitations that tether us to cities (so networks like SamTrans in Palo Alto aren't ideal), but AC in the East Bay would be an e…

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    Comment #7393507

    We've actually been working on something like this for San Francisco (and we plan to expand onwards after operating here): http://www.takehitch.com The municipality tends to work a…

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    Comment #5453673

    Glad you like it! We dont have any revenue sharing relationships in place with any of the services we link out to. We don't have any plans to monetize at present either. We found o…

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    Comment #5453422

    Sure thing. Just dropped you a line.

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    Comment #5453321

    Strange. They should be distinct. I'll look into it. On the biking side, we're considering looking at joins between biking and other modes of transit. So for example, you could bik…

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    Comment #5453314

    Haha. You dont have to go that far :) They're called "Fly Goggles" for those actually interested...

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    Comment #5452922

    We would be happy to take any of those providers down from our listing if they reach out to us. As we perceive it, if they chose to be removed, they provide an advantage to their c…

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    Comment #5452729

    We'll be working on that momentarily. We picked up iOS development just for this, and will do the same with Android. Hopefully in two weeks.

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    Comment #5452716

    Thanks :)