StreetsTube: A Conversation on Rideshare and Transportation Network Companies with Juan Matute

By Damien Newton
Oct 30, 2013

Here’s our half our interview. We didn’t get to everyone’s questions, but Juan was nice enough to go back and answer them in an earlier comments section.

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