cool thing #685 that’s happened at mit
September 8th, 2008 by Lawrence David
i met the founder of zipcar and goloco today (robin c.) at sloan. neat things involved:
- i was sitting in a sloan class on creating technology startups. i get to take classes on the science of starting companies with some of the country’s best business students for free. being a phd student and in the 2nd lowest tax bracket has got some perks at least.
- i ran into robin after she had finished answering questions and we were walking to our bikes; i got to pick her brain for a couple of minutes on why ridesharing isn’t working in the US. [it turns out americans just aren’t ready for the idea of letting strangers into their cars.]
- i also got some advice on how non-mbas can be useful at their startups and not get themselves fired, despite having helped to start a company: [hint: try and work at a startup in an industry you have some skills in. be indispensable.]