When Uber first broke out into the marketplace with a kind of growth that elicited a $51 billion valuation, it didn’t matter what industry you were in, there was a supposed way to use Uber as a model. See: the “Uber but for short-term accomodations” (AirBnB), “Uber for takeout” (Foodora), or “Uber but for Therapy” (Talkspace). Googling “like uber but for” gathers 380 million results.
Putting whether the “Ubertisation” of our economy is a good or bad thing aside, the term and the platform created a sensation.
Quarantined Programmers
What do you get when you lock a programmer in his room for 10 months? It turns out, an influx of video conferencing and communication platforms.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, (almost) everyone had to shift their work virtually, resulting in the meteoric rise of platforms like Zoom.