Birding Around Santa Monica and a Sweet Sixteen in Malibu this weekend.
Southern California has been calling us. 🙂
Our first Bird experience was a lot of fun. These electric scooters are dockless. You find one lying around (they were scattered around everywhere), use the mobile app to unlock and ride, and leave it wherever you end up.
Bird grew from 0 to a $1B valuation in 8 months, led by Sequoia. “Tech investors have never before participated in such a rapid and rocketing price spike.” — http://www.businessinsider.com/bird-electric-scooter-startup-raising-at-2-billion-valuation-2018-6
And that comes after a huge influx to others: bike and scooter sharing companies raised $260M in the first five months of 2018 according to Pitchbook.
The founding CEO of Bird, Travis VanderZanden, came from Uber and Lyft prior. He saw the data showing 40% of urban rides being under 2 miles, and during rush hour, taking longer than it would take by foot.
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