Chinese carpooling app Didapinche aims to help passengers find friends, jobs - even lovers
Didapinche attracts 600,000 car-sharing requests a day, but chief executive Song Zhongjie wants it to also be a social networking tool to help passengers find friends, jobs – even lovers.
What do you expect from a carpool ride? For Song Zhongjie, chief executive of China’s largest car-sharing online platform, it’s definitely not limited to simply cutting the cost of the journey.
The start-up entrepreneur plans to develop Didapinche, a popular mainland carpooling mobile phone application, into a social networking tool that can help passengers find friends, jobs – even lovers.
“Taking a half-hour carpooling ride is actually full of possibilities,” said Song, 48, a former sales manager with Google China.
Of course, romance is something that can start while on a carpooling ride, too
“For example, if an IT manager intends to hire a software engineer for his company, he can make an order on our platform to pick up only people working in this industry.
“Maybe it’s to make a new friend or find a potential business client...
“If a male driver wants to get to know more women, he can, for example, also tell us he wants to drive single women aged between 20 and 29.
“We can match them with the right people.”