Dave O'Flynn

Founders: Your narrative needs 3 clear parts for each competitor: 1. Where they excel: 'Great for basic task management' 2. Where they fall short: 'Struggles with complex workflows' 3. Why you're better: 'Built for enterprise process automation' Show you understand the full landscape.

The thing that's so depressing about "progressives" being so anti-AV is how they're mortgaging the interests of their poorest citizens in exchange for money and voting support of the largest unions. Why? Lower income transit users stand to benefit the most from autonomy. Bus riders typically ride the bus because they can't afford private conveyance (private owned car, Uber, etc.) As a result, they "pay" for public transit via fares and time cost - and they pay a LOT. They spend lots of time walking to the bus stop, waiting at the bus stop and then slowly making their way across the city as the bus stops for others. In a post autonomy world: 1. Better Bus: They don't wait for the bus. Autonomous mini-buses now travel down every primary and secondary arteries every five minutes. There's no driver shortage or driver cost. So it's just the capital cost and depreciation cost of the vehicle and the electricity to run it. Time cost and fare costs drop hugely for bus riders. That time and money goes back in their pocket. 2. Cheaper Ride Share: In the scenario where even the above isn't good enough, without a driver, autonomous point-to-point is now dramatically cheaper than even Lyft and Uber and certainly cabs. So now instead of dragging 6 bags of groceries and two kids onto the autonomous mini-bus, into the trunk of the autonomous rideshare it goes. This is how you know that the "progressives" fighting against autonomous vehicles are actually being terribly regressive. They're screwing bus riders who could be waiting at most 5 minutes to pay a $.50 fare for the AV mini-bus that runs down their street, or enjoying a $3 AV cab ride across the city. And they're screwing those hundreds of thousands of riders in exchange for union $ and voting support - that numbers in the thousands. I understand why they're doing it. But everyone else should call them to account for it, and identify what's actually going on.