The Drivers Cooperative

NPQ – Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms (2022-08)

From the company

• https://www.drivers.coop/
• https://wefunder.com/driverscoop
• ioby – Help NYC drivers launch a platform cooperative

2022

• NPQ – Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms (2022-08)
• ABC7 – Worker-owned apps are becoming more common, and changing the way the gig economy operates (2022-07)
• On Labor – Paving the Way for Rideshare Cooperatives (2022-05)
• Nasdaq – Alissa Orlando: Putting Drivers in the Driving Seat of the For-Hire Vehicle Industry (2022-05)
• Orlando – How to fundraise for a cooperative startup (2022-03)
• Mozilla Foundation – Move Over Uber, These Drivers Are Taking Ownership of Their Industry (2022-03)
• NCB – National Cooperative Bank Awards $125,000 in Grants to Three Cooperatives Serving Low-Income and BIPOC Communities (2022-03)
• Crain’s – How employee-owned firms hope to disrupt the tech industry (2022-03)
• Mozilla Foundation – Four Organizations Rethinking our Data Economy (2022-02)
• Business Insider – The Drivers Cooperative Is Helping Drivers Escape Uber (2022-02)
• Ownership Matters – Building a Worker-Centered Platform for Ridesharing (2022-01) 

2021

• The Progressive – Take This Job and Love It (2021-10)
• NYC Driver-Owned Co-op Ride Looking to Crowdfund $1 Million to Spur Growth (2021-07)
• CBS – Driver-Owned Ride-Share Service ‘Drivers Cooperative’ Launches In New York City (2021-06)
• New York Times – A Worker-Owned Cooperative Tries to Compete With Uber and Lyft (2021-05)
• Fast Company – How the Drivers Cooperative built a worker-owned alternative to Uber and Lyft (2021-07)
• Riverdale Press – Hailing a new, co-op ride-hailing app owned by drivers (2021-07)
• More Perfect Union – These Drivers Could Defeat Uber & Lyft With Their Own App (2021-06)
• Dollars and Sense – In the Drivers’ Seat (2021-05)
• Next City – This Ride-Hailing Platform Wants to be Better for Everyone, Starting with Drivers (2021-03)
• Next City – When Drivers are in the Drivers’ Seat for Taxi and Ride-Hail Companies (2021-01)

2020

• NPR – New App Aims To Compete With Uber, Lyft While Giving New York Drivers A Living Wage (2020-12)
• In These Times – New York City Drivers Cooperative Aims to Smash Uber’s Exploitative Model (2020-12)
• Curbed – Can a Worker-Owned App Pull Drivers From Uber and Lyft? (2020-12)
• Co-op  News – New York taxi drivers launch fundraiser for platform co-op (2020-12)