Ep 133: Same-day delivery with the sharing economy

Nov 5, 2018

Marshall Hughes, co-founder and CEO of delivery start-up Passel, joins me to discuss:

• Funding of delivery start-ups, including Passel
• Different delivery models, including:
  • Crowd-sourcing
  • Sharing economy
  • Gig economy
• How companies such as Uber and Lyft are contributing to traffic congestion
• Passel’s domestic and international expansion plans
• Some of the challenges of expanding into other markets
• Environmental considerations in the last mile
• The same-day delivery market, including customers’ varying delivery expectations
• Recruiting new delivery people
• The technology behind on-demand same-day delivery