The Baffling Economics of Scooters - YouTube

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📊 Short on time? 19 charts, the takeaways, and the full write-up: https://modern-mba.com/case/scooters You can search our entire catalog, browse videos by industry, read takeaways, and swipe through key charts from every video (including this one!) on our official website instead of waiting for YouTube to decide what to recommend next - no ads, no emails, no paywall. Emboldened by the low interest rates and mainstream tech hype in 2010s, VCs crowed that dockless scooter sharing would disrupt walking. Scooter startups like Bird and Lime took a page right out of Uber and Airbnb's playbook…

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