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

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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