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Bird lost 100 million in the first quarter, but it's a unicorn
Posted 5 years, 5 months ago
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Your profile is a unicorn. Is that a coincidence.
Great observation, it's not a coincidence. 😆 I'm an aspiring unicorn.
That’s awesome you are worth a billion dollars.
Billion pennies for sure. 😆
The question is how they lost the money. Was it due to the investments in R&D and expansion? Or is it because their pricing just simply doesn’t support the economics.
If it’s the latter, this industry is doomed. Or at the least they need to jack up the price
Mostly it's pricing, it's all laid out in my article I wrote for Rideguru in the newsroom. They are applying the U/L business model to scooters, dump them into the market and hope for the best to grow top line at all cost. It's a broken model in rideshare, it's a broken model with scooters. Expansion at all cost will get you here, however, they are a 2 billion dollar unicorn on paper. Who cares about profits when someone is throwing money at you. I'd take it too.