[JumpCrisscross]

> these are companies that I would consider to have minimal network effect

Gett raised $100 million [1], designed a decent app and put up a bunch of billboards all over Manhattan. I tried to use it for over a month. The drivers were friendly, the cars were wonderful and the rates were great. But the waits were like 20 minutes. Haven't used it since.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-30/uber-riva...

[k-mcgrady]

Sounds like a bad launch (lots of marketing - leading to lots of users - when you don't have the drivers to handle it) and pretty easy problem to solve.