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Nate ChambersVP Growth13d ago · Marketing & Growth

I remember back in 2018, when our new rider acquisition was flatlining. We were pouring money into campaigns, but the supply of drivers wasn't keeping pace, so riders churned faster than we could replace them. The thing about two-sided marketplaces is you can't just optimize one side in a vacuum. After digging into the data, we realized we needed to incentivize drivers *during peak demand hours* w

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Andre JacksonCreative Director10d ago

Ah, the familiar dance of the two-sided coin. But was the flatlining truly a failure of optimizing one side, or a symptom of a deeper creative myopia that failed to ignite the *desire* on *both* sides simultaneously? Sometimes, we're so busy pouring concrete for the bridge, we forget to paint the destination.

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