Problem
Scenario
You are advising a two-sided mobility marketplace where leadership has to choose where to focus near-term product investment. The business can ship features on the driver side, such as earnings visibility, destination filters, or onboarding improvements, or on the rider side, such as discovery, promotions, or trip conversion improvements. The right answer depends on marketplace health in each city, because pushing rider demand into an already constrained market can worsen ETAs and cancellations, while pushing driver supply into a weak demand market can hurt utilization and earnings.
Question
Should we prioritize features that increase driver supply or rider demand right now? How would you decide?
Representative Context
- City A: request volume +12% month over month, ETA up from 4.8 to 6.5 minutes, driver cancellation 9%
- City B: ETA stable at 4.5 minutes, rider conversion flat, driver utilization healthy
- City C: active drivers +10% year over year, trips per driver hour -14%, 90-day driver retention down from 68% to 59%
What This Tests
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