The Fall of “The Uber for Shipping”

I remember taking a phone screen with this company circa 2015. Mostly, I remember the recruiter on the other end doing an incredibly good job of selling me on the company being a great idea and a place I want to work at. I don't think I heard back from them again after that.

In retrospect it feels to me like one of those businesses that probably deserves a second wave of attempts when the landscape has shifted a little more.

There is a counterpart company in China called FlashEx that is doing pretty well (just raised Series D in 2018) right now, focusing on same city on demand shipping.

So it's a regular old run-of-the-mill courier service, except you send them a picture of the item you're sending instead of calling them or something.