Evaluating only Gett’s profile at its peak — without knowing the outcome — the model ranked Competition as the #1 likely cause. That’s exactly how it died.
Key Events Timeline
FOUNDING
Gett founded
PIVOT
Strategic pivot under pressure
SHUTDOWN
Sudden Collapse: Gett ceases operations
SHUTDOWN
Mass Layoff Spiral: Gett ceases operations
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Documented cause
Gett raised $650M including $300M from Volkswagen Group to build a global B2B corporate ground transport management platform. It competed with Uber for Business and Lyft Business in the US and UK. When COVID collapsed business travel, Gett shut down its US consumer app in 2019 (before COVID), then closed its London consumer app in 2020, and began a long retreat to focus solely on enterprise European clients. By 2023 it had shut down its Israeli operations entirely and sold its UK ground transport business to CAB Mobility, becoming a much smaller enterprise SaaS company.
Lesson
“B2B corporate ground transport is a high-commission, high-churn market: enterprise buyers always have an alternative (expense reports + personal Uber). Building a platform layer on top of existing ground transport does not create enough lock-in to justify $650M in capital.”