Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, safety and seasonality

Re:Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, saf... by nradov on Sunday February 03, 2019 @07:30PM (#19073117)

Can we please get parked scooters off the sidewalk where they present a safety hazard to visually and mobility impaired people?

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Re:Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, saf... by tapland on Monday February 04, 2019 @07:35AM (#19075778)

I signed up to be a charger for the two local services. Mostly used it to report poorly parked scooters (one man in his 40s just rode up and parked the scooter in front of the supermarket doors so that noone could exit, wtf?).

You can carefully lift them to the side, but people's inability to think of others being manifested so clearly is making me lose faith in people.

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Re:Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, saf... by baby on Monday February 04, 2019 @04:25PM (#19080788)

Can we please reduce the space cars use so that we can take advantage of it as bike/scooter riders or pedestrians?

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Re:Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, saf... by shard972 on Sunday February 03, 2019 @07:45PM (#19073164)

Sometimes with progress, you gotta break a few legs.

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Re:Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, saf... by taneq on Sunday February 03, 2019 @08:22PM (#19073294)

You can't make l'omelette without breaking l'eggs.

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Re:Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, saf... by bcOpus on Sunday February 03, 2019 @07:49PM (#19073182)

Sometimes with progress, you gotta break a few legs.

Where “progress” is synonymous with “profit” and the things being broken aren’t yours. Having said that if you’re volunteering, I know a guy with a hammer.

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Re:Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, saf... by shard972 on Sunday February 03, 2019 @11:15PM (#19073952)

I'm just making an observation of the facts, not positing a moral good or bad to progress.

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Re:Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, saf... by thecatspaw on Monday February 04, 2019 @06:46AM (#19075531)

Its not a true oberservation of facts though. Progress is achievable without any breaking of legs

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Re:Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, saf... by shard972 on Monday February 04, 2019 @08:19PM (#19082343)

Name one technology disruption that caused no pain for anyone?

With user taxi drivers lost their monopolies, the car put horse and buggies out of business, amazon put many retailers out of business etc. etc.

I can't think of one advancement that had 0 negative effects on anybody. I don't even know why someone would argue otherwise, i thought this was a pretty common position in somewhere like HN.

Sure you can say that the overall benefits were easily worth it, but its irrelevant to my point that there is always eggs broken along the way.

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Re:Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, saf... by BubRoss on Monday February 04, 2019 @12:34AM (#19074206)

Wouldn't benches, trees and just about everything else be a hazard to those people too?

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Re:Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, saf... by GhostVII on Monday February 04, 2019 @02:16AM (#19074531)

Benches and trees generally aren't in the middle of sidewalks.

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Re:Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, saf... by ddalex on Monday February 04, 2019 @07:37AM (#19075796)

and they generally don't move overnight...

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