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Hey doordash here is your marketing opportunity. Bring them food, water, handwarmers, etc on a bunch of snow mobiles. Some people get helped and you get a super bowl ad

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Umm if a doordash driver could get to them, then the cars could just leave themselves.

"...on snowmobiles..."

So the drivers could leave, but the cars would remain stranded.

Are there that many snow mobiles in VA?

:-D Great question.

Probably? https://www.yellowpages.com/search?search_terms=snowmobile+r...

> 1.3 million registered snowmobiles in the US [0]

For fun, let's just say those are evenly distributed amongst the states and there are 26,000 snowmobiles available in Virginia at DoorDash's disposal. I'd wager snowmobiles wouldn't be the limiting factor in this operation.

[0](https://www.snowmobile.org/snowmobiling-statistics-and-facts...)

There are probably not very many snowmobiles in Florida.

That is a good point that I had anticipated, but severely under appreciated.

I had presumed a somewhat more normal distribution of snowmobiles.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/420693/us-snowmobile-reg...

I'm adjusting my mental model to the reality that Virginia likely has less than 1000 registered snowmobiles.

something tells me Florida Man likes snowmobiling across the swamp a la https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NySgXKgfICM

This is a remarkable video (there's a helicopter and a snowmobile) but is that really in Florida?

That's a Fermi question if I've ever heard one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem

Being profitable and showing their value during a time period where most of the world was locked in their homes and restaurants couldn't seat anyone would have been a better marketing opportunity.

But they couldn't even do that and had to race to an IPO.

road's closed. maybe airdrop with drones?

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