Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home. I'm Brian McCullough.

All right, this is part two of my make good on not having podcast recommendations on Fridays recently.

Not too long ago, I recommended The Ride Share Guy podcast,

because I've fallen in love with it.

On that show and on his website the

rideshare guy dot com Harry Campbell allows us to look at a space in tech from a

different angle than we usually do on this show.

So here's a great conversation with Harry about the ride-share driver community, what they think

about the upcoming IPOs, what they think about ride-sharing platforms generally, who might be the driver's favorite

among the platforms, and what they think about the promise or peril of self-driving cars. If you haven't done it before, look up The

RideShare Guy podcast and The RideShare Guy.com. The big news coming down the pike again from the way I'm I'm covering this

space is the upcoming IPOs for the likes of Lyft and Uber.

How does the driver community feel about these IPOs?

Yeah, well, you know, I've been getting a ton of questions over the past six months from

drivers kind of just wondering what's going on with the IPOs and really more than anything

wondering how they can get in on the IPOs and I think that's kind of a common theme for drivers is that they feel like they're definitely a part of this company

But they're not always rewarded financially the same way as the employees or even the valuation of the company.

So I think with LIF's recent announcement

that they're actually gonna be giving cash bonuses

to their most loyal drivers, so drivers who hit

10,000 rides would get a $1,000 cash bonus that they could then go and invest in the

IPO.

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