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THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 5

By Cathal Brennan · 4 parts · 14 h 11 min · English

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Philadelphia, Palo Alto, San Mateo and the American curb, 2003 to 2025. A college sophomore begins driving warm cookies to dormitories after midnight. A graduate student and three classmates put up a one-page site to take orders for restaurants that do not deliver. An Amazon supply-chain engineer who has failed at twenty companies writes software that sends a stranger into a grocery store with somebody else's list. None of them builds a kitchen. Each builds a network whose unit of work is one person, one car, one order, and whose economics depend entirely on how many of those orders fall near each other. The volume turns on what that arithmetic required of the people inside it, and on whether the thing built was an industry or a subsidy. Covers Seth Berkowitz, Tony Xu, Stanley Tang, Andy Fang, Evan Moore, Apoorva Mehta, Larry Liu, Marc Lore, DoorDash, Instacart, Webvan, Kozmo, Urbanfetch, and HomeGrocer.

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  1. Part 01

    3:33:45

  2. Part 02

    2:45:45

  3. Part 03

    3:53:16

  4. Part 04

    3:58:32

Books in this series

  1. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 1

    4 parts · 16 h 26 min

  2. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 2

    4 parts · 14 h 46 min

  3. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 3

    4 parts · 15 h 42 min

  4. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 4

    4 parts · 15 h 34 min

  5. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 5

    4 parts · 14 h 11 min

  6. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 6

    4 parts · 13 h 13 min