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Ridejoy

Summer 2011 ยท Inactive

Long-distance carpooling marketplace. Shut down in early 2013.

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2011

Team size: 11

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About

Ridejoy is a community-driven marketplace for sharing rides. Ridejoy making it easy to share rides with friendly people. If you're going on a trip, you can list extra seat space in your car, and if you need to get somewhere, you can find a ride, using their service.

Founders

  • Kalvin WangFounder/CEO

  • Jason ShenFounder

    Executive coach to outlier founders and senior leaders. My life story in a nutshell: Immigrated from China as a hypercurious ADHD kid. Raised by library books, the 90's web, and a family of educators. NCAA gymnast at Stanford where I fell in love with Silicon Valley entrepreneurship. Spent 14 years as a 3x startup founder and PM at Etsy + FB. Wrote The Path to Pivot ๐Ÿ“˜ to help the next generation of founders make the leap. Now support 12+ outlier founders & leaders as their exec coach

  • Randy PangFounder