I spent most of my first year at Purdue asking people for rides.

One night I was texting three group chats trying to get to the Indianapolis airport for a 6am flight.

The one person who answered wanted to leave at midnight and sleep at the airport

I took it. It was still the better option.

Everyone here has a version of that story. Without a car you miss things.

You never notice it happening.

There's no moment where you decide to stay in. The plan falls apart before it starts, and then it's eleven at night and you've been in bed with your phone for three hours and you couldn't say what you looked at.

College is four years and most of what people remember from it happened somewhere else. The drive there, whoever was in the car.

Campus ends and that's the edge of the map.

Record shops, restaurants, places open thirty years that would be packed every weekend if forty thousand students could reach them.

Some of them close, which is dumb when the customers are four miles away.

So we built Kova. The math was stupid and somebody had to fix it.

Everyone told us why it wouldn't work, so we drove fifty rides ourselves to find out.

It worked. Then a thousand people downloaded the app before we spent a dollar on ads.

Somebody posts where they're going, you claim a seat, you pay them. Not us.

We don't take a percentage and the money never touches us, because we weren't building a smaller Uber and nobody was asking for one.

The driver was going anyway and you were trying to get there.

Somebody's driving this weekend. Go.