Micromobility

63: Escalators, Elevators and Stairs, and the Job-to-be-done of micromobility


Listen Later

This week Horace joins Oliver to riff on a recent mental model for thinking about the job to be done of micromobility, involving escalators, elevators and stairs. It’s Horace at his best - conceptual, funny, insightful as always. 
Specifically we cover: 
- Which customers pick escalators vs elevators vs stairs, and what insight that might provide to the job to be done of micromobility.
- The importance of ‘earning’ an experience
- Why Horace thinks that customers who climb escalators are the best customers.
- The importance of escalators in the architecture that they enabled.
- How the impact of regulation will impact on vehicle design.
- The importance of design and brand in solving the job to be done beyond simply A to B travel.
- Horace’s travel tip for Terminal 5 at Heathrow.
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

MicromobilityBy Horace Dediu and Oliver Bruce

  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5

5

2 ratings


More shows like Micromobility

View all
99% Invisible by Roman Mars

99% Invisible

26,147 Listeners

Pod Save America by Crooked Media

Pod Save America

86,191 Listeners

The Daily Beast Podcast by The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast Podcast

8,087 Listeners