OPPORTUNITY NAME: Amazon Flex FOUNDERS: Jeff Bezos ABOUT THE COMPANY: Amazon Flex is a driver recruitment and compensation program developed by Amazon which can help people get paid to drive. It is Amazon’s solution for getting deliveries of a variety of products from their point of origin to the customer …

OPPORTUNITY NAME: Uber DATE LAUNCHED: 2009 FOUNDERS: Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp ABOUT THE FOUNDERS/COMPANY: Uber is a ridesharing/transportation and mobile food-delivery app owned by Uber Technologies, Inc. Uber Technologies also founded and owns Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center, a scientific research company dedicated to creating self-driving cars, with the goal …

OPPORTUNITY NAME: Lyft (transportation service) DATE LAUNCHED: 2012 FOUNDERS: Logan Green and John Zimmer ABOUT THE FOUNDERS/COMPANY: Green and Zimmer conceived of Lyft as a spinoff of their 2007 startup, Zimride. Zimride was a long-distance ride-sharing program which matched people who wanted to travel to the same distant destinations for …