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This really comes off as spiteful and childish. Bird and Lime didn't come kiss the ring before daring to provide services to the residents of San Francisco, so

This really comes off as spiteful and childish. Bird and Lime didn't come kiss the ring before daring to provide services to the residents of San Francisco, so they get kicked to the curb in favor of a couple of companies who's timing hadn't yet angered the City.

AceyMan 8y ago
True — no, they didn't. They just clucked it up so bad in their launch locations that the smell had already wafted up from the Beach Cities down here to the Bay. Move fast and piss people off doesn't work too well, eh?
draw_down 8y ago
I just don’t understand this attitude that these companies are owed their ability to do business, particularly when it involves just dumping these things on the public sidewalks.
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- djrogers 8y ago
  Their customers dumped them on the sidewalks, and it seems to be a San Francisco thing - if you go to other cities with active scooter sharing, you don't see this behavior. Of course you also don't see peopel dfecating on the street in most other cities either, so San Francisco is a special kind of special.
JeremyBanks 8y ago
Let this be a lesson to the next Uber. :) And the current Uber too, actually. :D
- Kalium 8y ago
  It's worth remembering that Uber learned the lesson of Night School - a startup that insisted on playing by the rules and for its honesty was shut down. https://psmag.com/economics/night-school-failed-because-it-followed-law https://psmag.com/economics/night-school-failed-because-it-f... Combined, the lesson here seems to be this: * Asking permission for something new will tend to get you squashed. * If you're big enough, popular enough, and rich enough, you can work around this. * If someone else fails at that approach, you might get in in an arbitrarily regulated way some time later. I can see where some might like this lesson! Though personally, I think there might be some opportunity for improvement.
InclinedPlane 8y ago
If by "didn't kiss the ring" you mean they flagrantly violated the law, then sure.
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AceyMan 8y ago

True — no, they didn't. They just clucked it up so bad in their launch locations that the smell had already wafted up from the Beach Cities down here to the Bay. Move fast and piss people off doesn't work too well, eh?

draw_down 8y ago

I just don’t understand this attitude that these companies are owed their ability to do business, particularly when it involves just dumping these things on the public sidewalks.

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djrogers 8y ago
Their customers dumped them on the sidewalks, and it seems to be a San Francisco thing - if you go to other cities with active scooter sharing, you don't see this behavior. Of course you also don't see peopel dfecating on the street in most other cities either, so San Francisco is a special kind of special.

JeremyBanks 8y ago

Let this be a lesson to the next Uber. :) And the current Uber too, actually. :D

Kalium 8y ago
It's worth remembering that Uber learned the lesson of Night School - a startup that insisted on playing by the rules and for its honesty was shut down. https://psmag.com/economics/night-school-failed-because-it-followed-law https://psmag.com/economics/night-school-failed-because-it-f... Combined, the lesson here seems to be this: * Asking permission for something new will tend to get you squashed. * If you're big enough, popular enough, and rich enough, you can work around this. * If someone else fails at that approach, you might get in in an arbitrarily regulated way some time later. I can see where some might like this lesson! Though personally, I think there might be some opportunity for improvement.

InclinedPlane 8y ago

If by "didn't kiss the ring" you mean they flagrantly violated the law, then sure.

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