Booster, an App For Rich People Who Dont Want to Pump Their Own Goddamn Gas, Raises 2. Million. Yet another success for our burgeoning class of Silicon Valley overlords and their relentless quest to delegate all menial tasks in life to some sort of app Booster, a company which dispatches gas trucks to the parking lots of private communities so their inhabitants never need to refill their own gas tanks, is now a thing. Booster recently raised 2. Series B funding round, per Tech. Crunch, which has brought the companys total funding to some 3. CEO Frank Mycroft told Tech. Crunch the service is reinventing the concept and habit of getting gas for the 2. In practice, that means the company has partnered with tech giants including Cisco, Oracle and Facebook to have the trucks stop by on a regular basis and refill employees tanks while they are busy ensuring our dystopian future. Its a good deal for the tech companies, who are presenting Booster as a fancy employment perk. But those employees will shoulder 1. CNBC. Since Boosters business model relies on a high density of customers in centralized locations, theyre particularly focused on corporate campuses, universities and of course suburbs. When CNBC asked if the service was really necessary or just a perk for the rich, CEO Frank Mycroft responded, Why did we need Netflix when we had DVDsMycroft also touted the startup as a way for customers to avoid criminals, saying one of its investors parents was killed at a gas station. Violent crime has been plummeting for decades, especially in ritzy locales like the cities many major tech companies are headquartered in or the New York suburbs Mycroft told CNBC Booster is eyeing for future expansion, but heyat least its a way to avoid the kind of people that rich folks think are potential criminals. And to think, some people say theres a tech bubble. Tech. NUVO Indys Alternative Voice April 1. NUVO Newsweekly. NUVO Indys Alternative Voice April 1. Published on Apr 1. Talking Vinyl The Record Store Day issue. The Chris Connor BioDiscography Chronological List Of Recordings by Ivn Santiago Mercado. Page generated on Oct 20, 2017. Title Theres A Small Hotel vocal. Browse and discover unique shopping events, deals and collections across eBay categories. By the way, what do I mean with 100 blind Its a situation where the taster knows nothing about the whiskies hes got under his nose, whilst a situation. Tabtight professional, free when you need it, VPN service.
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