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Top Silicon Valley Investor Explains How Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Is Like Jeff Bezos
In October, Uber hired former Lyft COO Travis VanderZanden in October to help oversee Ube…
Maya Kosoff
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Bird, once primed to be the Uber of electric scooters and valued at $2.5 billion, just filed for bankruptcy
Bird said on Wednesday that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Florida after several years o…
Tom Carter
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Bird employees say they were locked out of their email and Slack accounts as they were told their jobs were gone
For one thing, the morning call, hosted by an unidentified Bird executive, lasted somewhere around …
Bani Sapra
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Electric scooter startup Bird has laid off 30% of the company in a scramble to preserve a 'cash runway' to last until the end of 2021
The three-year old company, based in Santa Monica, Calif., did not say how many employees were affe…
Bani Sapra
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The only executive to hold a high-ranking position at both Uber and Lyft is leaving Uber
"Besides sharing a name, Travis and I have shared the same passion for creating the best experience…
Biz Carson
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Bird's European boss says Brexit is the 'elephant in the room' that's holding up the launch of electric scooters
BI: How do you think about pricing then? Public transport represents good value for most people, be…
Shona Ghosh
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The overhyped scooter company that raised $400 million in 4 months is an example of everything that's wrong with Silicon Valley
To be sure, there are reasons to like the company.The actual Bird service has garnered positive wor…
Julie Bort
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An ex-Uber VP got $15 million for his new electric scooter startup - and it's already causing chaos
A more pressing concern for the startup may be safety, with a reported 281 traffic stops, 97 citati…
Rob Price
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SCOOTER WARS: 3 startups are raising hundreds of millions to speed up your commute - but they're annoying everyone in San Francisco
Eager not to repeat history, Bird started a "dialogue with the city" of San Francisco in January ah…
Melia Robinson
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10 things in tech you need to know today
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Shona Ghosh
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Electric scooter startup Bird has become a punchline after raising $400 million in 4 months, but these investors explain why scooters are no joke
"If you're the one who invented it, you've probably thought about the problem many layers deep," Bo…
Melia Robinson
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Uber Has Hired The Former COO Of Its Biggest Competitor
VanderZanden left Lyft in August amid tensions with CEO Logan Green and President John Zimmer. Vand…
Maya Kosoff
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The pandemic means electric scooter rentals will be allowed on the UK's public roads from June
Silicon Valley firms may finally trial electric scooters on UK roads.
Shona Ghosh
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Lyft Is Suing A Former Exec Who Allegedly Took Company Secrets To Uber
We are disappointed to have to take this step, but this unusual situation has left us no choice but…
Sam Colt
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Lyft's COO Has Left The Company
"Eighteen months ago, Travis joined the Lyft team as part of the Cherry acquisition to help scale o…
Karyne Levy
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FORMER LYFT COO SPEAKS OUT: I Didn't Take Secret Lyft Documents To Uber
We are disappointed to have to take this step, but this unusual situation has left us no choice but…
Maya Kosoff
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Top European investors are betting the crazy $3 billion US scooter trend will go global
"There is a real revolution happening because components are becoming cheaper, batteries are becomi…
Shona Ghosh
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An ex-Uber employee littering San Francisco's streets with scooters is claiming the city wants to shut down his $100 million startup
San Francisco's sidewalks have become cluttered with electric scooters in recent weeks as three ven…
Rachel Sandler
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Venture investment topped $57 billion in the first half of this year - and the money will probably keep on flowing
But if you wanted to get some of that cool venture cash, your best bet was to be in the software bu…
Troy Wolverton
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San Francisco might try to stop the electric scooter invasion by placing limits on how many each startup can rent out
Those scooter startups - namely, Bird, LimeBike, and Spin, which have raised hundreds of millions o…