🚨 Kids Delivering for Amazon?! DoorDash $100B Shock. Do we care? | Ep 264
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The gig economy landscape continues to evolve with DoorDash reaching a $100 billion valuation and expanding globally through strategic acquisitions.
• DoorDash overcharged a California bakery by applying a 30% commission instead of the contracted 13% for eight years, resulting in over $100,000 in excess charges
• Disturbing videos show children as young as 10 delivering packages for Amazon Flex and DoorDash drivers, raising serious safety concerns
• DoorDash is testing drone delivery programs, hiring workers at $18/hour to transport food from restaurants to drone loading stations
• Walmart Spark is implementing geo-fencing to prevent drivers from camping out in store parking lots, with no offers sent to drivers within 150 feet of pickup areas
• A rapper stranded with car trouble was driven 10 hours to his show by an Uber driver after their vehicle hit an object on the highway, puncturing the gas tank
• Waymo autonomous vehicles continue to experience issues, with a recent video showing one making an illegal left turn at a right-turn-only intersection
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