In May of 2016, the city of Austin voted in favor of Proposition 1, which resulted in rideshare companies Uber and Lyft to leave Austin because they did not want to fingerprint their drivers. This resulted in a frenzy of Austinites worrying how they would now get around the City of Austin since cab companies were unreliable. That’s where friends and co-founders, Andy Tryba and Joe Liemandt came to the rescue and re-invented ridesharing with their app, Ride Austin.…
Uber Austin’s Marco McCottry
November 4, 2015Meet Marco McCottry, he’s Uber Austin’s general manager who is originally from Cleveland, Ohio. Uber Austin has over 10,000 drivers and the company continues to grow and improve. Not only is Uber a ride share application, but it also spends much of its time giving back to the community. McCottry has been calling Austin his home ever since Uber first officially came to Austin. “So I’ve been here for a year. I started back in August of 2014, I moved…


