To celebrate our heroic win over Uber Boston… we mean, the Giants’ heroic win over the New England Patriots, use Promotion Code: MANNING and get $10 off one ride this week in NYC. Apply the promo now! It will be good through Friday until 11:59pm.
Don’t forget to talk some trash to @Uber_BOS and follow @Uber_NYC on twitter.
Go Big Blue!
File this post under shameless bragging.
I’m not the kind of internet user that signs up for every new service on the first day, but I have made some fortuitous moves in to web services about which I will now brag:
Facebook: Launched 2/4/2004, I joined 3/7/2004 (I estimate I am within the first 20,000), now has more than 845mm users
Foursquare: I am user 4821, there are now over 10mm users
Tumblr: I am user 29,174, there are now over 36mm users
Lot18: I am user 13, there are now almost 1mm members
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23rd St. - Ely Avenue
Back before they built the 63rd street tube under the East River about 10 years ago, both the E and F trains stopped at 23rd St. Ely Avenue. I calculated that I’ve passed this stop roughly 2000 times in my life (180 days of school x round trip x 4 years + any other time I ever went into Manhattan when I lived in Forest Hills). I knew nothing of this station but the image captured above. But now, this station is part of my daily commute, as I transfer there from the E to the G on my way to the Uber office in Greenpoint. While the idea of a start-up setting up shop in Williamsburg or Greenpoint is hardly unusual, I never in my wildest dreams thought this station, which I long admired through the subway car window, would ever be part of my life in this way.
The point is, things change, sometimes very quickly. 60 days ago I was chugging along at Lot18, right smack in the middle of the holiday shopping season. Now I’m running Uber NYC, in what I can describe in no other term than My Dream Job. I would never have guessed on December 3rd where I’d be on February 3rd. So, when you find yourself on a familiar, beaten path, try breaking out and see where it takes you. You wont be disappointed!
Me and Travis
A piece on Uber on NPR, focusing on our regulatory issues in DC. My parents heard it live this morning; not bad for 2nd day on the job!
(via ryangraves)
