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🗓️ 15 November 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Today is Friday, November 15, and we’re looking at Wag vs. Rover.
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1:08.7 | How much is that dog walking service in the window? That's the question |
1:12.6 | a few prospective buyers of the pet sitting company Wag are asking. The struggling gig worker business is up |
1:18.3 | for sale after a rough and tumble ride over the last few years. Jason Meltzer and brothers Joshua |
1:24.0 | and Jonathan Viner founded the company in 2015 as a kind of Uber for dog walking. |
1:30.1 | The idea, download the Wag app, select your location, and you can hire an independent |
1:35.6 | walker for Fido in an instant. The market for all things our pets need is growing by |
1:41.4 | leaps and bounds, you might say. Given our willingness to invest |
1:45.7 | oodles of money in man's and woman's best friend, the idea felt like a winner. It had grown |
1:51.6 | quickly expanding into 100 U.S. cities by early last year. Along with rival Rover, Wag got tons of |
1:58.8 | press and considerable interest from investors. In January of 2018, |
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