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Ridejoy (YC S11) Refuels With $1.3M Seed Funding from High-Octane Investors (ridejoy.com)
50 points by kalvin on Feb 6, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments



The market they're going at seemed initially insane - how do you get your head around all the chaos that is ride sharing? But this is clearly a team that loved the idea and can execute beautifully. The hard out-of-the-comfort-zone work that I've personally seen Jason Shen put is probably worth a series of posts alone. On top of that, they're actually making the world better.

I don't know if they've announced their team motto, but I'd invite them to lay it out for inspiration on how to respond when someone asks why you're able to solve a hugely difficult problem.


Sean - it takes one to know one. =)

We know it's an uphill battle to win the ridesharing space but we're determined to make it work.


Congrats guys! The Ridejoys are a really friendly, smart, and humble group of people. I'd really recommend working with them if you can, so if you're thinking about applying to their designer or software engineer job openings, definitely do so!


Aw, thanks Brandon! We care a lot about the team we're building and we're looking for people who believe in our mission. If you missed it, we're offering new hires (and any referrers) what we call "The Ultimate Collaborative Consumption Package":

$1000 worth of credit that you can spend on Airbnb, TaskRabbit, Grubwithus and Skillshare.

You can learn more at: http://ridejoy.com/jobs


Congrats to Jason & the Ridejoy crew. Well done guys. Well done.


awesome team and progress. rooting for you guys!


ridejoy is pretty cool. try it out!


Congrats again! (I invested!)


How do you plan on making money?

Any plans to include people who don't have or want to link their Facebook accounts?


So are you guys going to finally hire a designer or keep posting 'designer needed' ads on HN? ;)




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