Bastian Lehmann's TipTop launches an app that scans for past purchases in users' Gmail and Amazon accounts and offers to buy their used products at a fair value
Stuff used to break. — If you're of a certain age … X: Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : After selling Postmates to Uber in 2020, @Basti said he tried semi-retirement and thought about becoming a VC. Inv...
Filing: autonomous sidewalk delivery company Serve Robotics, which was spun out from Uber-owned Postmates and raised $56M, to go public via a SPAC merger
Serve Robotics, the autonomous sidewalk delivery robot startup that spun out of Uber's acquisition of Postmates, is going public via a reverse merger with a blank check company.
Postmates founder Bastian Lehmann's new crypto startup TipTop raises a $23M Series A from a16z, Sam Altman, Naval Ravikant, Jeff Clavier, Dan Romero, and others
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch :
Uber laid off ~185 Postmates staff, about 15% of the division's workforce; sources: most Postmates execs including CEO Bastian Lehmann will leave the company
Uber laid off ~185 Postmates staff, about 15% of the division's workforce; sources: most Postmates execs including CEO Bastian Lehmann will leave the company
The layoffs include most of the executive team at Postmates, the food delivery app that Uber bought last year.
Some Black startup founders are finding it easier to attract investors in 2020, as investors are accessible on Zoom and creating diversity-focused funds
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @mims , @mims , @mims , @ebekiel , @mims , @mims , @stevecase , and @mims Tweets: Christopher Mims / @mims : While the Ubers and the Postmates and (in...
Analysis: Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Postmates, and gig economy giants have spent ~$200M to support CA's Prop 22 and avoid reclassifying contractors as employees
even though the law wouldn't require that. Companies can give flexibility to employees if they choose to do so.” https://www.latimes.com/... @wsjpolitics : Uber, Lyft and DoorDash are spending tens of...
Analysis: Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Postmates, and gig economy giants have spent ~$200M to support CA's Prop 22 and avoid reclassifying contractors as employees
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @wsjpolitics and @derektmead Tweets: @wsjpolitics : Uber, Lyft and DoorDash are spending tens of millions of dollars and flooding voters with messages in a neck-and-neck...
SEC filing: Postmates posted a loss of $32.2M in Q2, compared to a loss of $73M in Q1; Postmates lost $105.2M in H1 2020 vs. $239M in the same period of 2019
Danny Crichton / TechCrunch :
How a law professor became the target of posts on conservative sites, social media harassment, and PR firms hired by gig economy companies, for supporting AB5
Labor activists are targeted in a social media campaign as gig economy companies spend millions to prevent workers from becoming employees. Tweets: @darakerr , @aaschapiro , @deaneckles , @gigworkersr...