Peter Reinhardt

CEO at Charm Industrial, prev. CEO at Segment, ex-MIT Aerospace Engineering. I write about learnings from building the company, product development, and physics or technology that piques my interest.

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Replacing Middle Management with APIs

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There’s a trend in Silicon Valley startups to create a software layer in industries that were traditionally pure human services. Uber and Lyft have created software layers in the taxi industry, 99designs Tasks in the visual design industry, Homejoy in the cleaning industry, and so on. These new software services…