This is awesome. Thanks for releasing all of this Josh.
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In NYC for example over 95% of drivers were being paid less than min wage.
Feel free to follow along on Twitter under the hashtagg #24HRstartup
Also you can find me on Twitter where I have over 150 tweets about this from the weekend. Would love to hear your POV.
Consumers absolutely love these coverage services but so far we haven't seen a low cost and viable business created yet.
I received no response yet, but my twitter account was promptly blocked by David. http://f.cl.ly/items/1x3Y1h2n0i1Q1F3e1H1f/Screen%20Shot%2020...
I will be reaching back out to Mike in a week and will update you guys. Thx.
One of my main frustrations though was that this was a very highly regarded YC company. Should consumers expect this disrespectful behavior to be accepted from other YC companies as well?
Should YC founders be expected to be able to simply pick and choose which customers they want to arbitrarily delete?
I can completely understand if this was a fly by night operation. But YC is basically the Harvard of startups and this was completely out of left field for me.
But I agree with you, I need to be more judicial with my time in the future.
I believe the employees are only paid $15 an hour.
They haven't responded yet.
Unfortunately they closed my account and stopped the donations. They provided no information on when the last donations went out so I could resume them.
They went completely dark.
I spent over $3,250 traveling to Silicon Valley. I spent over 60 hours of intense work to do a project for free for them that they requested.
I delivered them a beautifully custom 38 page research report that you can see here: http://f.cl.ly/items/3f3u1e14273P2v2a1Y2J/CAP1.pdf
I was treated like a second class citizen and tossed to the side. My account was deleted. I contacted all 4 of the founders. Not one would respond. They went dark.
I would hope that no one else gets treated as poorly as I was and experience this type of disrespect.
As you know I had a very bad experience with Magic as well.
I worked for you for free for a week and on boarded 63 new customers for you. You guys arbitrarily deleted my account, and abruptly shut off my autopay donations to numerous charities we had set up together.
Then you went silent and wouldn't return any of the ten messages I sent to you asking for access to my personal records and information regarding my numerous charity donations.
How can I encourage others to use your service if I was shown such an unprofessional and disrespectful experience?
1. This is fascinating to watch
2. How is Magic going to compete with Facebook M and www.GoButler.com? Butler does all the things Magic does but for free. And Facebook M is being rolled out to more and more people.
3. Is there space for a premium concierge assistant that gives even better service than Butler or M can do? What prevents Butler or M from simply rolling out a premium $25/hour service and undercutting Magic if this segment proves valuable.
4. Isn't the real money in massive scale. Will Magic simply be a small concierge shop for the very wealthy and will we all use Facebook M for most tasks in the future?